Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/jôtɨpô

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

Etymology

Hypothesized to be from *(j)ô (“tooth”) +‎ *-tɨpô (uncontrolledly or formerly possessed suffix).

Noun

*jôtɨpô (possessed *jôtɨpôrɨ)

1. bone

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: jehpo, zehpo
  • Kari'na: jèpo
  • Proto-Taranoan: *jetɨpə
    • Akurio: yehpë
    • Carijona: yetihë
    • Trió: jetïpë
  • Wayana: jetpë
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: ipügü
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: yotxhà, yotxho
  • Kaxuyana: yotxpï
  • Waiwai: yočho
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: ibyry
  • Ikpeng: itpïn
  • Pará Arára: itpy
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Mapoyan:
    • Mapoyo: yëʔpë
    • Yabarana: yëspë
  • Panare: yëjpë
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: e'pö, ö'pï
    • Macushi: ye'pî
    • Pemon: ye'pö
• Waimiri-Atroari: iyhy
• Ye'kwana: ye'jö
• Yukpan:
  • Yukpa: yopo, yovü

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), “*jətɨpə”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-01-18
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[2], Houston: Rice University, page 166
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 285
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ye'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon