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Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/wôrɨti

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

*wôrɨti

  1. woman

Descendants
  • Guianan:
    • Apalaí: (w)oryxi
    • Kari'na: woryi
    • Proto-Taranoan: *wərɨci, *wərici
      • Akurio: wërïhi
      • Carijona: wëriči
      • Trió: wëri
    • Wayana: wëlï, wëlïi
  • Kuikuroan:
    • Kuikúro: itãõ
  • Parukotoan:
    • Hixkaryana: wosà, woràs
    • Kaxuyana: worïsï
    • Waiwai: wosï
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
    • Mapoyan:
      • ⇒ Mapoyo: wëryaʔmu
      • ⇒ Yabarana: urihiamo
    • Panare: wïnkï'
    • Pemongan:
      • Akawaio: wuri, ⇒ uri'san
      • Macushi: wîri', wîri
      • Pemon: würik, wörü
    • Yao (South America): waryee (“sister”)
  • Waimiri-Atroari: weri
  • Ye'kwana: wodi
  • Yukpan:
    • ⇒ Yukpa: vorepa

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), “*wərɨti”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-28
  • Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎, Houston: Rice University, page 190
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 429
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wodi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
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