Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/tamu

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

*tamu (possessed *tamuru)

grandfather

Descendants

Guianan:
- Apalaí: tamu
- Kari'na: tamu
- Proto-Taranoan: *tamu, ⇒ *tamoko
  - Akurio: tamoko
  - Carijona: tamu
  - Trió: tamu, tamo
- Wayana: tamu
Kuikuroan:
- ⇒ Kuikúro: tãõpü
Parukotoan:
- Hixkaryana: tam
- Waiwai: tam, taam
Pekodian:
- ⇒ Bakairí: tako
- Ikpeng: tam
Venezuelan Cariban:
- Panare: tamu
- Pemongan:
  - Macushi: tamo
  - Pemon: tamo
- ⇒ Yao (South America): Tamoucum
Ye'kwana: tamu

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
Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎, Houston: Rice University, page 172

Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 378
Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tamu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon

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