Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/wapoto

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

*wapoto

1. fire

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: (w)apoto, (w)ahto
  • Kari'na: wàto
  • Proto-Taranoan: (with irregular change) *mapoto
    • Akurio: maato, mato
    • Carijona: mahoto
    • Trió: mahto
  • Wayana: wapoto, wapot
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: ito
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: weheto
  • Kaxuyana: wehoto
  • Waiwai: wehto
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: peto
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Mapoyan:
    • Mapoyo: waʔto
    • Yabarana: wahto
  • Panare: wajto, wajta
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: apo'
    • Macushi: apo'
    • Pemon: apok
  • Yao (South America): ouapoto
• Waimiri-Atroari: waty
• Ye'kwana: wa'to
• Yukpan:
  • Yukpa: vehta, veta

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), “*wapoto”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-03-05
• Florian Matter, editor (2021), “*mapoto”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-03-05
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[3], Houston: Rice University, page 171
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[4], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 424
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wa'to”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[5], Lyon