Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ônu

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

*ônu (possessed *ônuru)

eye

Related terms

*ône (“to see”)

Descendants

Guianan:
- Apalaí: onu
- Kari'na: onu
- Proto-Taranoan: *ənu
  - Akurio: ënu
  - Carijona: enu
  - Trió: ënu
- Wayana: ëwu
Kuikuroan:
- Kuikúro: ingu
Parukotoan:
- Hixkaryana: onu
- Kaxuyana: enu
- Waiwai: ewu, ew
Pekodian:
- Bakairí: enu
- Ikpeng: eng
- Pará Arára: eng
Venezuelan Cariban:
- Mapoyan:
  - Mapoyo: yenu
  - Yabarana: yanu
- Panare: o
- Pemongan:
  - Akawaio: enu
  - Macushi: enu
  - Pemon: enu
Ye'kwana: önu
Yukpan:
- Yukpa: enu

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), “*ənu”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-12
Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎, Houston: Rice University, page 170

Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 330
Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon

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