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

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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*wɨpɨ

  1. mountain

Descendants

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  • Guianan:
    • Apalaí: ypy
    • Kari'na: wypy
    • Proto-Taranoan: *pɨ(pɨ)?
    • Wayana: ïpï
  • Parukotoan:
  • Pekodian:
    • Bakairí: iwy
    • Ikpeng: ïwï (stone, rock)
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Waimiri-Atroari: wypy
  • Ye'kwana: jüü

References

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  • 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