Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ôkôju

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

*ôkôju

1. snake

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: okoi
  • Kari'na: okoju, akoju
  • Proto-Taranoan: *əkəi
    • Carijona: ëkëi
    • Trió: ëkëi
  • Wayana: ëkëi
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: eke
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: okoye
  • Waiwai: okoyi
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: âgâu
  • Ikpeng: ogoy
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Panare: ake, ajke
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: ököi
    • Macushi: îkîi
    • Pemon: okoi
• Ye'kwana: ököyu, ökkööyu

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
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[1], Houston: Rice University, page 184
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[2], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 327
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ökkööyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon