Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ôtjôkuna

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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

Noun

*ôtjôkuna (possessed *ôtjôkunarɨ)

  1. knee
    Synonym: *ôtjôkumu

Descendants

  • Guianan:
    • Kari'na: ókuna
  • Parukotoan:
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
  • ⇒ Ye'kwana: ekunaka

References

  • 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), “*ətjəkumu / ətjəkuna”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-23
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 328
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ekunaka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
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