Languages of hunter-gatherers and their neighbors

small bird

Semantic Field
flora-fauna
Part of Speech
Meaning Spanish
Meaning Portuguese

Languages

Language Linnean Name Orthographic Form Phonemicized Form Gloss as in Source Etymology Code Proto-Form Proto-Language Loan Source Etymology Notes Wanderwort Status Etyma Set Range of Term Word Structure Word Structure Notes Classifier Classifier Notes Hypernym Source Association with Social Categories Ritual/Mythologically Significant Ritual Notes Food Source Food Notes Medicinal Medicinal Notes How Collected Who Collects How Prepared Psychotropic Psychotropic Notes Traded Trade Notes Distribution Habitat Dangerous Ethnobiology Notes Species Notes General Notes
Bankalachi Toloim missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Big Smokey Valley Shoshone huiccuu small bird (generic) inheritance *hutti/huttu Numic Stubbs 205c (2008:69) same underived Crapo 1976:110 2 1 0 0 0 no
Cahuilla missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Central Sierra Miwok cheech'-kah-te small bird unique Sierra Miwokan only From Merriam's “Tuolumne” list so same source as in Miss base; obviously chichka with diminutive other complex -ti diminutive Merriam 57:461 2 1 0 0 0 no
Chemehuevi missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Chumash Barbareno missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Chumash Ineseno missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Chumash Obispeno missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Chumash Ventureno tšwiw small bird, any bird inheritance In Barbareno underived JPH II:91:0336 2 1 0 0 0 no
Cocopa missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Comanche tɨe huutsuu small bird unique same phrase small bird (perhaps a calque on elicitation) Rejon 1995:? 2 1 0 0 0 no
Cupeño no special term missing unknown 2 1 0 0 0 no
Esselen missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Gabrielino tse'-ū ˈtsi:ya small bird loan Chumash see “bird” no info underived may just be dialect variant of chi:ya, or may be phonaesthetic modification of consonant to make chi:ya smaller and cuter -ʔaʧ "pet" possessive classifier for animals chi:ya http://www.archive.org/stream/bancroft_chartmerriam_1556_60#page/n415/mode/2up; p. 429 no info 2 1978:122) 1 all birds eaten (McC 116) no info hunted all roasted 0 0 N/A N/A no
Iipay 'Aa missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Kawaiisu missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Kiliwa missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Kitanemuk wicitat ˈwiʦitat bird, any kind of small songbird inheritance *wi(t)tiki Northern Uto-Aztecan Stubbs 205a (Stubbs 2009:67); wici forms in Serran and S. Numic, and Tb. has chikit (wi- is a prefix???) narrower (does not include raptors, water birds regardless of size) other complex ˈwiʦita-t bird-npn -ʔacit "pet" possessive classifier for animals wicitat Anderton 1988:569 no info 2 1 no decent info but everybody ate songbirds and eggs no info hunted all roasted, boiled, eggs eaten 0 0 N/A N/A no
Lake Miwok missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Luiseño no special term missing unknown 2 1 0 0 0 no
Maidu missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Mojave missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Mutsun sisin small bird unique reduplicated Mason 1916:428 2 1 0 0 0 no
Nisenan putchet koo-sum, no-ni-jem yā-pin koo-sum pyjyty “small” small bird unique phrase Merriam 57:241 2 1 0 0 0 no
Northern Paiute missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Northern Sierra Miwok mice:maTi small bird (Merriam; Callaghan's transc) inheritance *mi(:)Te- Utian Callaghan 1986:63 phrase mice-maTi bird-creature, or perhas micema-Ti wild.meat-THEME Merriam 57:431 2 1 0 0 0 no
Plains Miwok cicip:u-, cicicpu-; bird, small bird unique reduplicated Callaghan 1984 2 1 0 0 0 no
Salinan A missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Salinan M missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Seri (Comcaac) missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Serrano missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Southern Paiute missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Southern Sierra Miwok cheech'-kah-te little bird unique Sierra Miwokan only From Merriam's “Tuolumne” list so same source as Mics base, but clearly dimin. of chichka- “bird” other complex -ti diminutive Merriam 57:457 2 1 0 0 0 no
Southern Ute missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Tübatulabal chikkīt ʧiˈki:t bird (also “small bird” in Merriam) loan Southern Sierra Miwok Callaghan 2001 SSM cicka is Yok-Utian broader (includes more than songbirds -- see “bird”)) other complex ʧiˈki:-t bird-npn Hill 2010:16 no info 2 1 Voegelin (1938:12) mentions that Tub. did not eat meadowlarks because they thought they were cute and felt sorry for them N/A N/A N/A N/A 0 0 N/A N/A no
Tümpisa Shoshone huttui small bird inheritance *hutti/huttu Proto-Numic Stubbs 205c (2008:69) same (hard to say, probably songbirds) underived Dayley 1989:29 2 1 0 0 0 no
Wappo missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Washo se-so ba-han-nung/ba-haz'-zing sí:su behéziŋ small bird (literal) (see WPD) unique phrase Merriam 55:309 2 1 0 0 0 no
Western Mono missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Wintu missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Yavapai missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Yokuts Palewyami we-we'-che “a general word for a bird or a small bird” unique unknown Berman 2002:435 interpeting CHM 2 1 0 0 0 no
Yokuts Yawdanchi te-he'-hip, tā-nip small bird inheritance Nim-Yokuts This is same word as (2) “bird” same underived Merriam 58:369 2 1 0 0 0 no
Yokuts Yowlumne missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Yuki missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Yuma missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no