Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/nunô

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

*nunô

1. moon
2. month

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: nuno
  • Kari'na: nuno
  • Proto-Taranoan: *nunnə
    • Carijona: nuna, nunï
    • Trió: nunnë
  • Wayana: nunuwë
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: ngune
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: nuno
  • Waiwai: nuuno, nuuñi
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: nunâ
  • Ikpeng: nuno
  • Pará Arára: nuno
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Mapoyan:
    • Mapoyo: nu:në
    • Yabarana: nunë
  • Yao (South America): noene
• Waimiri-Atroari: nenuwe
• Ye'kwana: nuunö
• Yukpan:
  • Yukpa: kuno

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), “*nunə”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2022-04-12
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[2], Houston: Rice University, page 177
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 390
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “nuunö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon