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Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/pɨmɨ

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

*pɨmɨ (possessed *pɨmɨrɨ)

  1. neck

Descendants
  • Guianan:
    • Apalaí: pymy
    • Kari'na: pymy
    • Proto-Taranoan: *pɨmɨ
      • Akurio: pïmï
      • Carijona: hïmï
      • Trió: pïmï
    • Wayana: pïmï
  • Parukotoan:
    • Hixkaryana: hmà
    • Kaxuyana: ehïmï
    • Waiwai: pïmï
  • Pekodian:
    • Bakairí: wymy
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
    • Panare: pïmï
    • Pemongan:
      • Akawaio: pïmï, 'mï
      • Macushi: pîmî, 'mî
      • Pemon: pümü, pumü, 'mü
    • ⇒ Yao (South America): boppomery
  • Waimiri-Atroari: pymy
  • Ye'kwana: jümü
  • Yukpan:
    • Yukpa: pümü

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), “*pɨmɨ”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-16
  • Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎, Houston: Rice University, page 178
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 355
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jümü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
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