Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/jôtɨpô

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

Etymology

Hypothesized to be from *(j)ô (“tooth”) +‎ *-tɨpô (uncontrolledly or formerly possessed suffix).

Noun

*jôtɨpô (possessed *jôtɨpôrɨ)

bone

Descendants

Guianan:
- Apalaí: jehpo, zehpo
- Kari'na: jèpo
- Proto-Taranoan: *jetɨpə
  - Akurio: yehpë
  - Carijona: yetihë
  - Trió: jetïpë
- Wayana: jetpë
Kuikuroan:
- Kuikúro: ipügü
Parukotoan:
- Hixkaryana: yotxhà, yotxho
- Kaxuyana: yotxpï
- Waiwai: yočho
Pekodian:
- Bakairí: ibyry
- Ikpeng: itpïn
- Pará Arára: itpy
Venezuelan Cariban:
- Mapoyan:
  - Mapoyo: yëʔpë
  - Yabarana: yëspë
- Panare: yëjpë
- Pemongan:
  - Akawaio: e'pö, ö'pï
  - Macushi: ye'pî
  - Pemon: ye'pö
Waimiri-Atroari: iyhy
Ye'kwana: ye'jö
Yukpan:
- Yukpa: yopo, yovü

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), “*jətɨpə”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-01-18
Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎, Houston: Rice University, page 166

Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 285
Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ye'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon

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