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maala
a word from vocabulary
Yaqui
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Zarina Estrada Fernández
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Word form
maala
LWT meaning(s)
the mother
Word meaning
mother, mom
Comments on word
Common in Yaqui usage
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
Proto-Uto-Aztecan [32] (-2000–-1000)
Register
General
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
4. very little evidence for borrowing
Comments
Johnson (1943:431) documents this word as a loanword from Spanish, but it seems that the has its origin in the Proto-Uto-Aztecan cognate *ma, *mal. In Mayo maala ‘daughter (of a man)’, in Yaqui maala ‘daughter (of a man)’. (Miller 1967:25).
Source words
madre
'mother'
Spanish
Effect
Coexistence
Salience
Present only since contact
Contact situation
Spanish contact [32]
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