Reconstruction:Proto-Tupi-Guarani/kuj
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Proto-Tupi-Guarani
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]*kuj
Reconstruction notes
[edit]Mello reconstructs *kuja.[1] However, for this protoform to work, most of its descendants should be oxytones ending in [a], which is not the case — Old Tupi has kuîa, and not *kuîá, for example.
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]*kuj[2]
- to fall off (to become detached or to drop from)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Mello, Antônio Augusto Souza (2000), “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos [Lexical reconstructions and cognates]” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais [Historical study of the Tupi-Guarani language family: phonological and lexical aspects] (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 173, line 286
- ^ Schleicher, Charles Owen (1998), Comparative and internal reconstruction of the Tupi-Guarani language family, Madison: University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 342, line 128