Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/titi

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

*titi

1. sun

   Synonym: *weju

2. day

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: xixi
  • Wayana: hihi
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: giti
• Parukotoan:
  • Kaxuyana: isïsï
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: xixi
  • Ikpeng: txitxi
  • Pará Arára: txitxi
• Ye'kwana: shii

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), “*titi”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2022-04-11
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “shii”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon