Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ômija

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

*ômija (possessed *ômijarɨ)

  1. hand
    Synonym: *amo

Descendants

  • Guianan:
    • Apalaí: oma, ema
    • Kari'na: aina, (West Suriname) aija
    • Proto-Taranoan: *ənja, *enja
  • Kuikuroan:
    • Kuikúro: inhatü
  • Pekodian:
    • Bakairí: ema
    • Ikpeng: mya
    • Pará Arára: emia
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
    • Panare: eña
    • Pemongan:
  • Yukpan:

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), “*əmija”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 22 April 2022
  • Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎[2], Houston: Rice University, page 173
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 213–214
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