Reconstruction:Proto-Tupi-Guarani/kunumĩ

This Proto-Tupi-Guarani 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-Tupi-Guarani

    Noun

    *kunumĩ[1][2][3]

    1. boy

    Descendants

    • Guajajára: kunumi
    • Guarayu: kunumi
    • Mbyá Guaraní: kunumi
    • Old Tupi: kunumĩ
      • Old Tupi: kurumĩ (LGA), kulumĩ (LGP)
        • Nheengatu: kurumĩ
          • Brazilian Portuguese: curumim, colomi, colomim, columim, culumi, culumim, curumi
    • Urubú-Kaapor: kurumĩ

    References

    1. ^ Miriam Lemle (1971) “Internal classification of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic family”, in David Bendor-Samuel, editor, Tupi Studies (SIL Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields; 29), volume I, Norman: SIL of the University of Oklahoma, page 122, line 127
    2. ^ Charles Owen Schleicher (1998) Comparative and internal reconstruction of the Tupi-Guarani language family, Madison: University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 342, line 126
    3. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (17 March 2000) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 173, line 294