Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/wôrɨti

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

*wôrɨti

1. woman

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: (w)oryxi
  • Kari'na: woryi
  • Proto-Taranoan: *wərɨci, *wərici
    • Akurio: wërïhi
    • Carijona: wëriči
    • Trió: wëri
  • Wayana: wëlï, wëlïi
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: itãõ
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: wosà, woràs
  • Kaxuyana: worïsï
  • Waiwai: wosï
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Mapoyan:
    • ⇒ Mapoyo: wëryaʔmu
    • ⇒ Yabarana: urihiamo
  • Panare: wïnkï'
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: wuri, ⇒ uri'san
    • Macushi: wîri', wîri
    • Pemon: würik, wörü
  • Yao (South America): waryee (“sister”)
• Waimiri-Atroari: weri
• Ye'kwana: wodi
• Yukpan:
  • ⇒ Yukpa: vorepa

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), “*wərɨti”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-28
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[2], Houston: Rice University, page 190
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 429
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wodi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon