Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/wôkɨrɨ

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

*wôkɨrɨ

  1. male human being, man

Descendants

  • Guianan:
    • Kari'na: wokyry
    • Proto-Taranoan: *kɨrɨ, *gɨrɨ
      • Akurio: kïrï
      • Carijona: gïrï
      • Trió: kïrï
  • Parukotoan:
    • Hixkaryana: kàrà
    • Waiwai: kïrï
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Waimiri-Atroari: wykyry
  • Yukpan:
    • ⇒ Yukpa: küpa

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), “*[wo]kɨrɨ”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 7 March 2024
  • Meira, Sérgio (1998), A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎[2], Houston: Rice University, page 177
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008), A Carib grammar and dictionary‎[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 428
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