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Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/wɨtoto

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

*wɨtoto

  1. person

Descendants
  • Guianan:
    • Kari'na: itoto, sitoto (“southern Amerindian, stranger, enemy”)
    • Proto-Taranoan: *wɨtoto
      • Akurio: wïtoto
      • Carijona: wïtoto (“Witoto, enemy”)
      • Trió: wïtoto
    • Wayana: witoto
    • → English: Witoto, Huitoto, Uitoto, Uitota
  • Kuikuroan:
    • Kuikúro: toto (“man”)
  • Parukotoan:
  • Pekodian:
    • Bakairí: udo (“non-Bakairi Amerindian”)
    • Ikpeng: urot (“wild Amerindian”)
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
    • Panare: tato, toto (“non-Amerindian”)
    • Pemongan:
      • Akawaio: itoto
      • Macushi: to' (“they”)
  • Ye'kwana: sotto, so'to, soto, ssoto

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 181
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 280
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sotto”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
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