Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/

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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

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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*jô (possessed *jôrɨ)

  1. tooth

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Guianan:
    • Apalaí: ze, je
    • Kari'na: je
    • Proto-Taranoan: *je
      • Akurio: ye
      • Carijona: ye
      • Trió: je
    • Wayana: je
  • Kuikuroan:
    • Kuikúro: i
  • Parukotoan:
    • Hixkaryana: yo
    • Kaxuyana: yo
    • Waiwai: yo
  • Pekodian:
    • Bakairí: e
    • Ikpeng: e
    • Pará Arára: e
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Waimiri-Atroari: iee
  • Ye'kwana: yedü, dhedü
  • Yukpan:

References

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  • 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), “*jə”, in Comparative Cariban Database[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-14
  • Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology[2], Houston: Rice University, page 187
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 285
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yedü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[4], Lyon