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'''*''katɨ''''' "to be, to sit" ([[Stubbs, Brian D. 2011. Uto-Aztecan: A Comparative Vocabulary. Flower Mound, TX: Shumway Family History Services and Rocky Mountain Books.|Stubbs 2011#2006]]; ). This reconstructs to PUA and all branches of PSUA. [[Voegelin, C. F., F. M. Voegelin & Kenneth L. Hale. 1962. Typological and comparative grammar of Uto-Aztecan: I (phonology). (Indiana University Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics : Memoir, 17.) Baltimore: Waverly Press.|VVH 1962#42]] reconstruct as *''kastɨ'' with medial sibilant.

'''PSUA''':
:'''Proto-Tepiman''' *''katsɨ'' "lie"
::TO kaač ‘lie lifeless, exist over an area’; 
::Pima kacï ‘lay’; 
::Eu kací; (Tepiman loan?)
::Op katte; Op karu ‘impf verb suffix: was verb-ing’; 

:'''Sonoran''': *''katɨ'' 
::Wr kahtí ‘estar sentado, sg.’; 
::My káttek ‘estar sentado’; 
::Yq káatek; 
::Tbr katé ‘estar, estar sentado, vivir, estar en’;

:'''Corachol-Nahuan''': *''kate''
::Wc ''kaatéi'' ‘estar sentado, vivir’ 
::Cr ''ka'' ‘be, sit’; 
::proto-Nahuatl: *''kat'' / *''kate''
::CN kaʔ (pret: kaʔ, katki, pl. kateʔ) ‘be.

'''Numic''': *''katɨ''

'''Californian''': *''qatɨ'' (Serrano: Sr qaţ/qaţï)
Tb halït~’aahal ‘sit, live’;

==Possible relations with other words==
PUA *''kari'' "house" (in sense "dwelling")
*-''ka'' noun suffix describing discrete things and persons ([[Dakin, Karen. 2001. Animals and vegetables, Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic classification, and cultural history. in Laurel J. Brinton (ed.), Historical Linguistics 1999. John Benjamins, 105-117.|Dakin 2001])
Proto-Nahuatl: *''ka:wa'' "leave" could be derived as a transitive verb with verb formant -wa.