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Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ôkôju

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

*ôkôju

  1. snake

Descendants
  • Guianan:
    • Apalaí: okoi
    • Kari'na: okoju, akoju
    • Proto-Taranoan: *əkəi
      • Carijona: ëkëi
      • Trió: ëkëi
    • Wayana: ëkëi
  • Kuikuroan:
  • Parukotoan:
    • Hixkaryana: okoye
    • Waiwai: okoyi
  • Pekodian:
    • Bakairí: âgâu
    • Ikpeng: ogoy
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
    • Panare: ake, ajke
    • Pemongan:
      • Akawaio: ököi
      • Macushi: îkîi
      • Pemon: okoi
  • Ye'kwana: ököyu, ökkööyu

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 184
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 327
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ökkööyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
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