Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/karipona

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

*karipona (Guianan)

person
Cariban speaker, Carib

Descendants

Guianan:
- Kari'na: karìna
  - → Akawaio: kari'na
  - → English: Kari'na, Kari'nja, Kalina, Karìna, Kariña, Carina, Cari'na, Kalinya
  - → Ye'kwana: kadi'ña
  - → Pemon: kari'na
- Proto-Taranoan: *karipona
  - Carijona: karihona
    - → Spanish: Carijona
      - → English: Carijona
- Wayana: kalipono
- → Lokono: karipna
- → Kalinago: karifuna
  - Garifuna: garifuna
    - → English: Garifuna
  - → Spanish: Caribe, caribe
    - → Catalan: Carib, carib
    - → English: Carib, Caribe, caribe
      - ⇒ English: Caribbean
    - → Portuguese: Caribe
- → Taíno: caniba, canima, *kanibna
  - → Spanish: caníbal
    - → Catalan: caníbal
    - → English: cannibal
    - → Italian: cannibale
  - →? English: Caliban

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 (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[1], Houston: Rice University, page 15
Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[2], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 293
Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kadi'ña”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon