Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/wɨpɨ

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

Alternative forms

• *ɨpɨ

Noun

*wɨpɨ

1. mountain

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: ypy
  • Kari'na: wypy
  • Proto-Taranoan: *pɨ(pɨ)?
    • Carijona: hïbï
    • Trió: pïï
  • Wayana: ïpï
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: àhà
  • Waiwai: ïïpï, ïpï
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: iwy
  • Ikpeng: ïwï (“stone, rock”)
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Panare: i'
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: wï'
    • Macushi: wî'
    • Pemon: wük
• Waimiri-Atroari: wypy
• Ye'kwana: jüü

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), “*[w]ɨpɨ”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-03-05
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[2], Houston: Rice University, page 178
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 431
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jüü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon