Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/jôje

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

*jôje

1. tree

   Synonym: *wewe

2. wood

   Synonym: *wewe

Descendants

• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: i
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: e
  • Ikpeng: yay
  • Pará Arára: jei
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Mapoyan:
    • Mapoyo: yëhe
    • Yabarana: yë:ye
  • Panare: iye
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: yïi
    • Macushi: yei
    • Pemon: yöi
• Ye'kwana: iye, ye, dee

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), “*jəje”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-13
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “iye”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon