Reconstruction:Proto-Arawak/para

This Proto-Arawak 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-Arawak

Noun

*para

1. sea

Descendants

• Proto-Ta-Arawak:
  • Wayuu: palaa
  • Lokono-Igñeri:
    • Lokono: balha, balhaha, ybalha
    • Igñeri-Taíno:
      • Garifuna: barana
      • Taíno: *bawa
        • → Spanish: bagua

References

• Granberry, Julian, Vescelius, Gary (2004) Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 121