Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/nono

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

*nono (possessed *nonorɨ)

1. earth, soil
2. land

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: nono
  • Kari'na: nono
  • Proto-Taranoan: *nono
    • Akurio: nono
    • Carijona: nono
    • Trió: nono
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: ngongo
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: onrom
  • Ikpeng: orong
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Mapoyan:
    • Mapoyo: nono
    • Yabarana: no:no
  • Panare: ano
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: non
    • Macushi: non
    • Pemon: nono, non
• Ye'kwana: nono
• Yukpan:
  • Yukpa: nono (“sand”)

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), “*nono”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-12
• Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎^[2], Houston: Rice University, page 169
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 325
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “nono”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon