From our 2022 project on the Americas, OLD WORDS IN THE NEW WORLD I. Mozeson, Fernando Aedo, Dorothy C. Pionter -- edenics.org
צן TSaiN or TSaiN, barb, toothlike-thorn, prickle ;שן SHaiN, tooth [TINE]
A TINE is the individual spike or tooth of a fork
In this large entry, teeth and sharp things share Sound and Sense.
They share a fricative-nasal sound or a T-N sound, as ש Shin can shift to T,
The צ Tsadi is already designed as both fricative and dental.
Our most familiar thorn, the prickle of a rose, resembles a sharpened canine tooth.
This entry is divided by 1) teeth, 2) sharp objects and 3) biting creatures.
1) TEETH
anhi:su, tooth (Kitsai: Northern Caddoan) rev.
cham, molar tooth (Yucatecan: Mayan) S-N
chental, molar tooth (Chicomuceltec: Mayan)
cune, tooth (Kunza: isolate of Chile)
čǝns, tooth (Klallam: Vancouver, British Columbia, Cananda)
ʔeNt, tooth (Natchez: Penutian of Miss.) rev.
* innoti, tooth (Proto-Muskogean) rev. צן TSaiN
or Shin-to-T shift שן SHeN, tooth [TINE]
int, tooth (Natchez: Gulf language of Miss.) rev.
itsh-on, tooth (Shastan: extinct, perhaps Hokan of Calif, Oregon)
note, noo-te, tooth (Choctaw: Muskogean) rev.
notté, teeth (pl.) (Muskogean: Muskokee) rev.
nutē or nutta, tooth (Muskogean: Chickasaw) rev.
onotschia, tooth (Onondaga: Iroquois) rev.
sainha, tooth of piranha (Tupi: Equatorial of Brazil)
sa'nino, toothed fish (Pacahuara: Pano-Tacanan)
semu, tooth (Mangue: Oto-Manguean of Nicar., Hond., Costa Rica) S-N
sini, tooth (Purépecha or Tarascan: isolate of Michoacán, Mexico)
sun, tooth (Kiowa or Caigua: Uto-Aztecan or Tanoan)
'ṣ̌ɨna, tooth (Pacahuara or Pacaguara: Panoan of Bolivia]
tahmah, tooth (Hopi: Uto-Aztecan of U.S. SW)
tahni, tooth (Comanche: Uto-Aztecan of SW USA)
tama, tooth (Hopi: Pueblo of SW USA) S-N
tame, tooth (Huichola: Uto-Aztecan of Jalisco, Mexico, etc. S-N
tameti, tooth (Cora: Uto-Aztecan of central Mexico) S-N
tami, tooth (Oʼodham or Pima: Uto-Aztecan of Mexico) S-N
tamus, tanus, tooth (Eudeve: Uto-Aztecan of Sonora, Mexico and SE Ariz. S-N
tangua, tooth (Shoshone: Uto-Aztecan of Wyoming, Utah and Idaho)
tantli, tooth (Nahuatl: Uto-Aztecan of Central America)
tatamu , tooth (Tepehuán : Piman branch of the Uto-Aztecan) S-N
tatzan, tooth (Totonaco: Uto-Aztecan of Mexico)
temela, tooth (Tarahumara : Uto-Aztecan) Tarasco S-N
tonaugh, teeth (Caddo/Keresiouan)
tong, tooth (Yuta: Mixtex, Uto-Aztecan of Mexico)
tun, tooth (Yagán: Isolate of Argentina)
xinsha, tooth (Proto-Crow: Keresiouan of the Great Basin of Western USA ) rev.
2) SHARP OBJECTS
acushan, needle (Chol: Mayan)
aneeto, thorn, needle (Bora: Amazonian) rev.
antiri, horn (Shiwiar or Achuar: Chicham language of Ecuador) rev.
ch.am, point, tip (Kanj: Mayan)
ch’am, arrow (Pmam: Mayan) S-N
ch’antin, arrow (Chor: Mayan)
chinto, dart for birds (Amahuaca: Amazonian) S-F
iten, sharp, knife (Nahuatl: Aztec)
mes, arrow (Agua: Mayan) rev.
muta, thorn (Cashibo: Panoan) rev. S-N
sanearin, briar (Chayahuita: Amazonian)
senet’, spear (Itza: Mayan)
tanka, hornet (Quechua or Inca of Central America)
t’ankar, bramble (Quechua or Inca of Central America)
t’int’in, arrow (Kanj: Mayan)
to’om , needle or thorn (Itza: Mayan) S-N
tzimáj, arrow (Keke: Mayan) S-N
3) SHARP, BITING CREATURES
áunta, horned beetle (Aguaruna: Chicham of Peru) rev.
chankana, bee stinger (Quechua: Inca)
chíni, a yellow-jacket bee (Aguaruna: Chicham of Peru)
dyanááraga, horsefly (Ocaina or Uarakena: Arawakan) S-D
haníitso, mosquito (Resigaro: extinct Arawakan of the upper Amazon) rev.
náte, biting lice (Huitoto Murui: Witotoan of Colombia and Peru) rev.
sani, wasp (Machiguenga: Arawakan of Peru)
-sanii, wasp (Ashaninca: Arawakan of Peru, Brazil)
sániri, toothy alligator (Machiguenga: Arawakan)
sénoa’, a stinging bee (Chayahuita: Amazon basin of Peru)
shan, shanan, sh.en, shen, shenen, mosquito
(Quic / Tzut / Kanj / Jaca / Tzot / : Mayan)
shani, wasp (Chamicuro: Arawakan)
shanita, the toothy alligator (Candoshi: Amazonian of Peru)
shánu, a stinging wasp (Aguaruna: Chicham of Peru)
sinan, the biting scorpion (unspecified Maya of Mexico)
tanka, hornet (Quechua: Inca)
tome, small alligator (Huitoto: Witotoan family of Peru and Colombia) S-N
tunca, horsefly (Chayahuita: Amazon basin of Peru)
Note: see the san fish in the “tooth” section.