Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/amo

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

Etymology 1

Noun

*amo (possessed *amorɨ)

1. hand

   Synonym: *ômija

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • ⇒ Kari'na: amosaiky (“fingernail”)
  • Wayana: amo
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: amo
  • Kaxuyana: amo
  • Waiwai: amo
• Waimiri-Atroari: amyy
• Ye'kwana: amö, amo

Etymology 2

Verb

*amo

1. (transitive) to weep for, to cry for, to mourn

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Kari'na: amo
  • Proto-Taranoan: *amo
    • Trió: amo
  • Wayana: amo
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • ⇒ Yao (South America): ouamonu
• ⇒ Ye'kwana: aamo

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), “*amo”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2022-04-22
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[2], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 213–214, 223–225
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “amo, aamo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon