Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/kapu
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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
*kapu
Descendants
- Guianan:
- Kuikuroan:
- Kuikúro: kahü
- Parukotoan:
- Pekodian:
- Venezuelan Cariban:
- Ye'kwana: kaju
- Yukpan:
- ⇒ Yukpa: kamuru
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
- Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology, Houston: Rice University, page 183
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 291
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kaju”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon