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

Related terms

• *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^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-23
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[2], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 328
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tö'muuye”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon