Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/karipona

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.

*karipona (Guianan)

1. person
2. Cariban speaker, Carib

• Guianan:
  • Kari'na: karìna
    • → Akawaio: kari'na
    • → English: Kari'na, Kari'nja, Kalina, Karìna, Kariña, Carina, Cari'na, Kalinya
    • → Ye'kwana: kadi'ña
    • → Pemon: kari'na
  • Proto-Taranoan: *karipona
    • Carijona: karihona
      • → Spanish: Carijona
        • → English: Carijona
  • Wayana: kalipono
  • → Lokono: karipna
  • → Kalinago: karifuna
    • Garifuna: garifuna
      • → English: Garifuna
    • → Spanish: Caribe, caribe
      • → Catalan: Carib, carib
      • → English: Carib, Caribe, caribe
        • ⇒ English: Caribbean
      • → Portuguese: Caribe
  • → Taíno: caniba, canima, *kanibna
    • → Spanish: caníbal
      • → Catalan: caníbal
      • → English: cannibal
      • → Italian: cannibale
    • →? English: Caliban

• 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 (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎, Houston: Rice University, page 15
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 293
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kadi'ña”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon