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Show of Proto-Numic *punku is used for "pet" in ail the languages* it is extended to the most typical animal, which is "dog" in the inner languages, "horse" in the outer languages* The reflex of Proto-Numic *sat*£ is found only in the outer languages, where it means "dog"* '£he word for "eagle" is used for possessing birds in some of the Western and Central Numic languages. Hopi is a Pueblo language of Northeastern Arizona* Like^fubatulafeal, it is bot& a single language and an independent branch of Uto-Aztecan* %e word p6oko is used for "dog, pet"5 and can be optionally used as a classifier for animals, as well as for cars* The suffix form -pok, -vok is obligatorily used for possessed aggregates of animals* The Sonoran branch of Uto-Aztecan is located in Northwest Mexico* There are six subbranches* Two of them, Opatan and Tubars are probably extinct, and I have no information on them* I also lack information on the most southern sub-branch, Corachol, which consists of Cora and Huichol* ^he remaining subbranches, Tepiman, Tarahumaran, and Cahltan, all share the "pet" phenomenon to a greater or lesser extent* The Tepiman subbranch of Sonoran consists of four closely related languages found in two discontinuous stretches from southern Arizona well into Northwest Mexico* Pima-Papago in the north and Southeastern Tepehuan in the south, the languages I have information on, display similar patterns,, so it is reasonable the intervening languages do also* The Uto-Aztecan "pet" word, *pukus appears to have been lost in Tepiman* and replaced by ft noun tvhich is derived from a verb meaning "to be poor, pitiful, humble"* In earlier times, the noun# appears to have been used for "slave" as well as "pet", A rather fuzzy distinction is made between alienable and inalienable possession by using the suffix -ga (<PUA *-wa), and this suffix is used with the "pet" word. The classifier may be used in animal possession, but its use is not obligatory. Isfeen possess, and not used with another animal term, it is normally taken to be "dog", but there is also an unambigious word for "dog"ft |