Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/tamu

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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

*tamu (possessed *tamuru)

  1. grandfather

Descendants

  • Guianan:
    • Apalaí: tamu
    • Kari'na: tamu
    • Proto-Taranoan: *tamu, *tamoko
    • Wayana: tamu
  • Kuikuroan:
  • Parukotoan:
  • Pekodian:
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Ye'kwana: tamu

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
  • Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology, Houston: Rice University, page 172
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 378
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tamu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon