Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ônu

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

*ônu (possessed *ônuru)

1. eye

Related terms

• *ône (“to see”)

 

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: onu
  • Kari'na: onu
  • Proto-Taranoan: *ənu
    • Akurio: ënu
    • Carijona: enu
    • Trió: ënu
  • Wayana: ëwu
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: ingu
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: onu
  • Kaxuyana: enu
  • Waiwai: ewu, ew
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: enu
  • Ikpeng: eng
  • Pará Arára: eng
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Mapoyan:
    • Mapoyo: yenu
    • Yabarana: yanu
  • Panare: o
  • Pemongan:
    • Akawaio: enu
    • Macushi: enu
    • Pemon: enu
• Ye'kwana: önu
• Yukpan:
  • Yukpa: enu

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), “*ənu”, 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 170
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 330
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon