Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/amo

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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

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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*amo (possessed *amorɨ)

  1. hand
    Synonym: *ômija
Descendants
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  • Guianan:
    • Kari'na: amosaiky (fingernail)
    • Wayana: amo
  • Parukotoan:
  • Waimiri-Atroari: amyy
  • Ye'kwana: amö, amo

Etymology 2

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Verb

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*amo

  1. (transitive) to weep for, to cry for, to mourn
Descendants
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  • Guianan:
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Ye'kwana: aamo

References

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  • 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), “*amo”, in Comparative Cariban Database[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2022-04-22
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[2], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 213–214, 223–225
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “amo, aamo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[3], Lyon