Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ômjamo
Proto-Cariban edit
Etymology edit
From *ômô (second-person singular pronoun) + *-jamo (collective suffix).
Pronoun edit
*ômjamo
Inflection edit
Proto-Cariban personal pronouns
Descendants edit
- Guianan:
- Kuikuroan:
- ⇒ Kuikúro: amago
- Parukotoan:
- Venezuelan Cariban:
- ⇒ Chaima: amiamorkom, amiamorkon, amiarkom
- ⇒ Tamanaku: amñamoro
- ⇒ Ye'kwana: önwanno
- Yukpan:
References edit
- Meira, Sérgio (2002) “A first comparison of pronominal and demonstrative systems in the Cariban language family”, in Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sergio Meira and Hein van der Voort, editors, Current Studies on South American Languages[1], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275
- 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 (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology[2], Houston: Rice University, page 191
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 224, 226
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önwanno”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[4], Lyon