Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/tamu

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

*tamu (possessed *tamuru)

1. grandfather

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: tamu
  • Kari'na: tamu
  • Proto-Taranoan: *tamu, ⇒ *tamoko
    • Akurio: tamoko
    • Carijona: tamu
    • Trió: tamu, tamo
  • Wayana: tamu
• Kuikuroan:
  • ⇒ Kuikúro: tãõpü
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: tam
  • Waiwai: tam, taam
• Pekodian:
  • ⇒ Bakairí: tako
  • Ikpeng: tam
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Panare: tamu
  • Pemongan:
    • Macushi: tamo
    • Pemon: tamo
  • ⇒ Yao (South America): Tamoucum
• Ye'kwana: tamu

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
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[1], Houston: Rice University, page 172
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[2], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 378
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tamu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon