Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/pitupô

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

*pitupô

  1. skin
  2. bark
  3. peel, rind

Descendants

  • Guianan:
    • Apalaí: pihpo
    • Kari'na: pi, (possessed) pìpo
    • Proto-Taranoan: *pitipə
    • Wayana: pitpë
  • Kuikuroan:
  • Parukotoan:
    • Hixkaryana: hutxhu
    • Kaxuyana: hi
    • Waiwai: pičho, pitho
  • Pekodian:
    • Bakairí: tuby
    • Ikpeng: pitu, iput
    • Pará Arára: iput
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
    • Mapoyan:
      • Mapoyo: piʔpë
      • Yabarana: pihpë
    • Panare: pijpë, pijë
    • Pemongan:
      • Akawaio: pi'pï, pi'pö
      • Macushi: pi'pî
      • Pemon: pi'pö
  • Waimiri-Atroari: bixi
  • Ye'kwana: ji'jö

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), “*pitupə”, in Comparative Cariban Database[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 1 May 2022
  • Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology[2], Houston: Rice University, page 183
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 344
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ji'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[4], Lyon