Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/apô

This Proto-Cariban entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Cariban

Noun

*apô (possessed *apôrɨ)

1. arm
2. wing, feathers

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: apo
  • Kari'na: apo
  • Proto-Taranoan: *apə, *əpə
    • Akurio: apë, ëpë, ⇒ apëri
    • Carijona: ahë
    • Trió: apë, ëpë
  • Wayana: apë
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: aho
  • Waiwai: apo
• Pekodian:
  • Pará Arára: abon
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: apö
    • Pemon: apue
  • Yao (South America): iapelly
• Ye'kwana: ajö, a'jö

References

• Gildea, Spike, Doris Payne (2007) “Is Greenberg’s ‘Macro-Carib’ viable?”, in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, volume 2, number 2, Belém, pages 19–72
• Meira, Sérgio, Bruna Franchetto (2005) “The southern Cariban languages and the Cariban family”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 71, pages 127–192
• Florian Matter, editor (2021), “*apə”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-13
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[2], Houston: Rice University, page 164
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 232
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon