Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/môrô
Proto-Cariban
editEtymology
editPerhaps from an earlier *mô + *rô (emphatic particle).
Pronoun
edit*môrô
Inflection
editProto-Cariban demonstratives
Descendants
edit- Guianan:
- Kuikuroan:
- Kuikúro: ege
- Parukotoan:
- Pekodian:
- Venezuelan Cariban:
- Waimiri-Atroari: myry
- Ye'kwana: mödö
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
- 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), “*mərə”, in Comparative Cariban Database[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-01-17
- Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology[3], Houston: Rice University, page 185
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[4], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 319
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “mödö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[5], Lyon, pages 122, 445