Katɨ

*katɨ "to be, to sit" (Stubbs 2011#2006; ). This reconstructs to PUA and all branches of PSUA. 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.