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:
  • Pekodian:
  • 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 13 February 2024
  • 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
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