Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/irakô

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

*irakô

1. bullet ant

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Kari'na: irako
  • Proto-Taranoan: *irakə
    • Akurio: irakë
    • Carijona: irakë
    • Trió: irakë
  • Wayana: ilak
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: ira'
    • Pemon: irak
• Ye'kwana: yaakö

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 (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[1], Houston: Rice University, page 163
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[2], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 277
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yaakö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon