Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/kure

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 edit

Adverb edit

*kure (nominalized *kurano)

being good, fine, beautiful

Descendants edit

Guianan:
- Apalaí: kure
- Kari'na: kure
- Proto-Taranoan: *kure
  - Akurio: kure
  - Carijona: kure
  - Trió: kure
- Wayana: kïřwa, kirwan
Pekodian:
- ⇒ Ikpeng: karake
- Pará Arára: kure
Venezuelan Cariban:
- Panare: kara
- Yao (South America): coure
⇒ Waimiri-Atroari: kareme

References edit

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), “*kure”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-19
Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[2], Houston: Rice University, page 172
Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 305