Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/manatɨ

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

*manatɨ (possessed *manatɨrɨ)

1. breast (of a woman)
2. udder

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: manaty
  • Kari'na: manaty
    • → Spanish: manatí
      • → Catalan: manatí
      • → English: manatee
        • → Japanese: マナティー (manatī)
        • → Korean: 매너티 (maeneoti)
        • → Welsh: manatî
      • → Finnish: manaatti
      • → French: lamantin
        • → Armenian: լամանտին (lamantin)
        • → Corsican: lamantinu
        • → Dutch: lamantijn
        • → English: lamantin
        • → Italian: lamantino
        • → Romanian: lamantin
        • → Russian: ламанти́н (lamantín)
      • → Galician: manatí
      • → German: Manati
      • → Italian: manato
      • → Malay: manati
      • → Polish: manat
      • → Portuguese: manatim
      • → Portuguese: manati
      • → Tagalog: manati
      • → Swahili: manatii
      • → Welsh: manatî
      • → Ye'kwana: manati
  • Proto-Taranoan: *manatɨ
    • Akurio: manatï
    • Carijona: manatï, manati
    • Trió: manatï
  • Wayana: manatï
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: angatü
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: manatà
  • Kaxuyana: manatï
  • Waiwai: manatï
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: wanry
  • Ikpeng: manga
  • Pará Arára: manga
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Mapoyan:
    • Mapoyo: mati
    • Yabarana: matti
  • Panare: matï, ma'
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: manatï, manat
    • Macushi: manatî
    • Pemon: manatü, manak
  • Yao (South America): mannatii
• Waimiri-Atroari: manaty
• Ye'kwana: manatü

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), “*manatɨ”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-03-04
• 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 312
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon, page 89