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The words for "fire" in Southern Uto-Aztecan languages are generally derived from the same UA root *tahi (Stubbs 2011#??).

Corachol-Nahuan

Proto-Corachol-Nahuan:
  • tahi
Nahuan:
tle- < *tlai < *tai <*tahi
Corachol:
Proto-Corachol
  • tahi
Wixárika
tai
Náayeri
táih

Tepiman

Bascom (1965#215) reconstructs proto-Tepima *tai.

Sonoran

Eudeve: te (Pennington 1981:132)
Tara-Guarijío *naʔi, *na
Mountain Guarijio: naʔi (Miller 1996:444)
River Warihio: naʔí (Félix Armendariz 2005:478)
Raramuri: naʔí ([[Brambila, David. 1976. Diccionario raramuri-castellano (tarahumar). México, DF: Obra Nacional de la Buena Prensa|Brambila 1976:345)
Yaqui tahi (Estrada Fernández et al. 2004:255)