Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/weju

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

*weju

Descendants

Guianan:
- Apalaí: eju
- Kari'na: weju
- Proto-Taranoan: *wei
  - Akurio: wei
  - Carijona: wei
  - Trió: wei
Kuikuroan:
- Kuikúro: ĩbo, ĩmbo (“light”)
Parukotoan:
- Hixkaryana: weyu (“tar”)
Venezuelan Cariban:
- Panare: we (“light”)
- Pemongan:
  - Akawaio: wei, wöi
  - Macushi: wei
  - Pemon: wei
- Yao (South America): weyo
Waimiri-Atroari: woi
Ye'kwana: weyu, wedu (“rays of the sun, summer, year”)
Yukpan:
- Yukpa: wecho

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), “*weju”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2022-05-10
Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎, Houston: Rice University, page 185

Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 424
Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wedu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon

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