Where does “yū kuc̷uʔ” come from?

yū kuc̷uʔ (Zacatepec Chatino) comes from Proto-Indo-European yū- — to bind, to tie.

yū kuc̷uʔ (Zacatepec Chatino): mud

Definitions

  1. mud

Ancestry of “yū kuc̷uʔ”, step by step

yū kuc̷uʔ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European yū-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanyū-to bind, to tie

via Zacatepec Chatino kuc̷uʔ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Zacatepec Chatinokuc̷uʔwound
Every word from Proto-Indo-European yū- →