cat
↔
cougar
3 realizations
FAMILY: Uto-Aztecan
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Classical Nahuatl | |
| lexeme 1 | mizton | |
| lexeme 2 | miztli | |
| meaning 1 | cat | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | cougar | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Apocopic form of miztli 'mountain lion, puma' + -tōn (diminutive suffix). Compare miztōntli 'puma cub'. Alonso de Molina (1571), Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, Editorial Porrúa |
|
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Huasteca Nahuatl | |
| lexeme | mistli | |
| meaning 1 | (Central Huasteca Nahuatl) cat | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (Central Huasteca Nahuatl) cougar | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Morelos Nahuatl | |
| lexeme | mistle | |
| meaning 1 | cat | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | cougar | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
From Proto-Nahuan *mɨs-tlɨ, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *musa-ta 'cat'. Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl mistli 'cat', Northern Puebla Nahuatl mistli 'cat', Western Huasteca Nahuatl mistli '(Matlapa) puma, (Chalchicuautla) jaguar', Temascaltepec Nahuatl mistli 'puma, lion'
Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “1354. *musa ‘cat’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary, revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 237 https://bmslr.org/books/Uto-Aztecan%20A%20Comparative%20Vocabulary.pdf
Andrews, J. Richard (2003), Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 237
Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997), Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages 70–71
Karttunen, Frances (1983), An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, pages 149–150