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Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ôtjôkumu

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

*ôtjôkumu (possessed *ôtjôkumuru)

  1. knee
    Synonym: *ôtjôkuna

Descendants
  • Guianan:
    • Apalaí: esekumu, sekumu
    • Wayana: ëhehmu
  • Parukotoan:
    • Kaxuyana: sokmu
    • Waiwai: osokmu
  • Pekodian:
    • Bakairí: ezeunru
    • >? Ikpeng: pyagumi
    • Pará Arára: edegum
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
    • Mapoyan:
      • Yabarana: tšikimura
    • Panare: che'mu
    • Pemongan:
      • Akawaio: ese'mu
      • Macushi: ese'mu
      • Pemon: esemu
  • Ye'kwana: ö'mu

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), “*ətjəkumu / ətjəkuna”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-23
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 328
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tö'muuye”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
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