Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ôwna

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

Alternative forms

• *ôwnata

Noun

*ôwna (possessed *ôwnarɨ)

1. nose

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: ouna
  • Kari'na: anàta, onàta
  • Proto-Taranoan: *eona
    • Akurio: eunata, ohna
    • Carijona: ona
    • Trió: oona, ouna
  • Wayana: ëmna
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: inata
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: owna
  • Kaxuyana: owna
  • Waiwai: ewna
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: ena
  • Ikpeng: engna
  • Pará Arára: engna
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Mapoyan:
    • Mapoyo: yënna
    • Yabarana: yena
  • Panare: ëwa
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: enna, euna
    • Macushi: euna
    • Pemon: euna, yeuna
  • Yao (South America): hoenaly
• Waimiri-Atroari: nata
• Ye'kwana: önna
• Yukpan:
  • Yukpa: ena

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), “*əwna(ta)”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-01-05
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[2], Houston: Rice University, page 179
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 227
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önna”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon