Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/mituku

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

*mituku (possessed *mitukuru)

1. blood

   Synonym: *munu

Descendants

• Parukotoan:
  • ⇒ Hixkaryana: kamsuku
  • ⇒ Kaxuyana: kami
  • ⇒ Waiwai: kamšuku
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Mapoyan:
    • Mapoyo: mišuku
    • Yabarana: me:suku
  • Panare: mechu'

References

• 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), “*mituku”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-13
• Florian Matter, editor (2021), “*kamituku”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-13