Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/amo
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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
Etymology 1
Noun
*amo (possessed *amorɨ)
Descendants
Etymology 2
Verb
*amo
- (transitive) to weep for, to cry for, to mourn
Descendants
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), “*amo”, in Comparative Cariban Database, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2022-04-22
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 213–214, 223–225
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “amo, aamo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon