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Reconstruction:Proto-Taranoan/cirikə

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This Proto-Taranoan 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-Taranoan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tirikô.

Noun

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*cirikə

  1. star

Descendants

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  • Akurio: tyirikë
  • Carijona: čirikë
  • Trió: sirikë

References

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  • Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology[1], Houston: Rice University, page 184
  • 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), “*tirikə”, in Comparative Cariban Database[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2022-04-11