Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/wôkɨrɨ

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

*wôkɨrɨ

1. male human being, man

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Kari'na: wokyry
  • Proto-Taranoan: *kɨrɨ, *gɨrɨ
    • Akurio: kïrï
    • Carijona: gïrï
    • Trió: kïrï
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: kàrà
  • Waiwai: kïrï
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Pemongan:
    • Pemon: kurai
• Waimiri-Atroari: wykyry
• Yukpan:
  • ⇒ Yukpa: küpa

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), “*[wo]kɨrɨ”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-03-07
• 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 428