Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/munu

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

*munu (possessed *munuru)

1. blood

   Synonym: *mituku

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: munu
  • Kari'na: mynu
  • Proto-Taranoan: *munju
    • Carijona: muñu
    • Trió: munu
  • Wayana: mïwu
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: ungu
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: unu
  • Ikpeng: mïng
  • Pará Arára: myngy
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: mïn
    • Macushi: mînî, mîn
    • Pemon: mün, mun
• Waimiri-Atroari: myny
• Ye'kwana: munu
• Yukpan:
  • Yukpa: muru

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), “*munu”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-13
• 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 322
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “munu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon