Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ôtema

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

*ôtema (possessed *ôtemarɨ)

1. path, road

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: osema
  • Kari'na: óma
  • Proto-Taranoan: *əcema
    • Akurio: ëhema
    • Carijona: esema
    • Trió: ëema
  • Wayana: ësema, ëhema
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: ama
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: asama
  • Kaxuyana: esma
  • Waiwai: esama
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: ânwa, ânwam
  • Ikpeng: anma
  • Pará Arára: enma
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Mapoyan:
    • Mapoyo: e:ma
    • Yabarana: atšima
  • Panare: chïma, chama
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: e'ma
    • Macushi: e'ma, ema
    • Pemon: e'ma, ema
• Waimiri-Atroari: wuma
• Ye'kwana: ööma
• Yukpan:
  • Yukpa: osema

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), “*ətema”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-15
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎, Houston: Rice University, page 179
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 328
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ööma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon