Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ôwna

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

Alternative forms

*ôwnata

Noun

*ôwna (possessed *ôwnarɨ)

nose

Descendants

Guianan:
- Apalaí: ouna
- Kari'na: anàta, onàta
- Proto-Taranoan: *eona
  - Akurio: eunata, ohna
  - Carijona: ona
  - Trió: oona, ouna
- Wayana: ëmna
Kuikuroan:
- Kuikúro: inata
Parukotoan:
- Hixkaryana: owna
- Kaxuyana: owna
- Waiwai: ewna
Pekodian:
- Bakairí: ena
- Ikpeng: engna
- Pará Arára: engna
Venezuelan Cariban:
- Mapoyan:
  - Mapoyo: yënna
  - Yabarana: yena
- Panare: ëwa
- Pemongan:
  - Akawaio: enna, euna
  - Macushi: euna
  - Pemon: euna, yeuna
- Yao (South America): hoenaly
Waimiri-Atroari: nata
Ye'kwana: önna
Yukpan:
- Yukpa: ena

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), “*əwna(ta)”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-01-05
Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎, Houston: Rice University, page 179

Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 227
Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önna”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon

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