Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/konopo

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

*konopo

1. rain

   Synonym: *tuna

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: konopo
  • Kari'na: konopo
  • Proto-Taranoan: *konopo
    • Akurio: konopo
    • Carijona: konoho
    • Trió: konopo
  • Wayana: kopë
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: kongoho
• Parukotoan:
  • Kaxuyana: konoho
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: kopâ
  • Ikpeng: kongpo
  • Pará Arára: kongpo
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Mapoyan:
    • ⇒ Yabarana: kënapowë:peri
  • Panare: kano', kono'
  • Pemongan:
    • Macushi: kono'
    • Pemon: konok
  • Yao (South America): kenape
• Ye'kwana: konojo
• Yukpan:
  • Yukpa: keyopo

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), “*konopo”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-28
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[2], Houston: Rice University, page 181
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 298
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “konojo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon