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Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/jôje

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

*jôje

  1. tree
    Synonym: *wewe
  2. wood
    Synonym: *wewe

Descendants
  • Kuikuroan:
    • Kuikúro: i
  • Pekodian:
    • Bakairí: e
    • Ikpeng: yay
    • Pará Arára: jei
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
    • Mapoyan:
      • Mapoyo: yëhe
      • Yabarana: yë:ye
    • Panare: iye
    • Pemongan:
      • Akawaio: yïi
      • Macushi: yei
      • Pemon: yöi
  • Ye'kwana: iye, ye, dee

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), “*jəje”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-13
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “iye”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
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