Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/siku

This Proto-Uto-Aztecan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

*siku

1. navel

• Cahita:
  • Mayo: siicu
• Proto-Nahuan:
  • Classical Nahuatl: xīctli
  • Mecayapan Nahuatl: xi̱ꞌti
  • Northern Puebla Nahuatl: iixic
• Pimic:
  • O'odham: hik, hig
  • Tepehuan:
    • Northern Tepehuan: íkui
    • Southeastern Tepehuan: jik
• Tarahumaran:
  • Central Tarahumara: sukí

• Voegelin, C. F., Voegelin, F. M., Hale, Kenneth L. (1962) Typological and Comparative Grammar of Uto-Aztecan: I (Phonology) (Indiana University Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics; Memoir 17), Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., page 140: “(68) *siₛku navel”