Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/weju

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

*weju

1. sun

   Synonym: *titi

2. light
3. dry season
4. day

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: eju
  • Kari'na: weju
  • Proto-Taranoan: *wei
    • Akurio: wei
    • Carijona: wei
    • Trió: wei
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: ĩbo, ĩmbo (“light”)
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: weyu (“tar”)
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Panare: we (“light”)
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: wei, wöi
    • Macushi: wei
    • Pemon: wei
  • Yao (South America): weyo
• Waimiri-Atroari: woi
• Ye'kwana: weyu, wedu (“rays of the sun, summer, year”)
• Yukpan:
  • Yukpa: wecho

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), “*weju”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2022-05-10
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[2], Houston: Rice University, page 185
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 424
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wedu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon