Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ômija

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

*ômija (possessed *ômijarɨ)

1. hand

   Synonym: *amo

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: oma, ema
  • Kari'na: aina, (West Suriname) aija
  • Proto-Taranoan: *ənja, *enja
    • Akurio: enya
    • Carijona: ëña
    • Trió: ënja, enja, anja
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: inhatü
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: ema
  • Ikpeng: mya
  • Pará Arára: emia
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Panare: eña
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: miya', emiya
    • Macushi: enya, miya
    • Pemon: yenna, enya, miya
• Yukpan:
  • Yukpa: ema

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), “*əmija”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2022-04-22
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[2], Houston: Rice University, page 173
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 213–214