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Show The reflex of PUA *puku is buku in Tarahumara, puhku in ^uarijio, the two languages that constitute the Tarahumsran subbranch of Sonoran. It must be used in the possessing of animalSo "hen used without an anianal name, it means 8cattle', the most typically possessed animals in this part of jijfexico* '^he root is also used in the Guari jlo derivation for "adopted child". MX The Cahltan subbranch of Sonora, consisting of the very closely related Mayo and Yaqui, preserve the PUA root for "pet", where it is most commonly used in a verbal derivation, bukek, "to have cattle"« *A'he word for "slave" is also related^ I have it on authority that the noun can be usedj, optionally, as a classifier, but I have no examples* Washo is just to ©he east of the Sierras, and is the only non-Numic language in the Basin* It is a Hokan language, distantly related to Yuman and Seri* However, the "pet" construction of Washo is not genetically related to Yuman and Seri* "Pet" is g&su*, and is used obligatorily with animal possession* **y itself, it normally is taken to mean "dog" (and in earlier times, ^horse" in the northern dialect), but there is also a separate word for "dog". Last to consider is/feres, a language spoken at several southwestern Pueblos. "Pet" is an inalienably possessed noun, and its use with possessed animals is obligatory0nmmmmmnm The "pet" word is not extended in meaning to other animals, though it is found in a derivation for "livestock". fi'he "pet" h phenomenon includes two of the four linguistic groups in the Pueblos, but it is absent in the other two9 £uni and Tanoan (I know at least t&Sxb it is absent in Tewa and kernes* I have no report for the Xtafc third Tanoan language, Tiwa). It is absent in Navajo (and one would guess in the the other Apachean languages as well), in Kiowa, and the languages belonging to the Caddoaji, Siouan, Algonkin, and Muskogean families. Thus the eastern boundary can be established with confidence* But the southern and northern boundaries are in doubt* California in particular is crucial) I am |