Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ôtema

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

*ôtema (possessed *ôtemarɨ)

  1. path, road

Descendants

  • Guianan:
    • Apalaí: osema
    • Kari'na: óma
    • Proto-Taranoan: *əcema
      • Akurio: ëhema
      • Carijona: esema
      • Trió: ëema
    • Wayana: ësema, ëhema
  • Kuikuroan:
  • Parukotoan:
    • Hixkaryana: asama
    • Kaxuyana: esma
    • Waiwai: esama
  • Pekodian:
    • Bakairí: ânwa, ânwam
    • Ikpeng: anma
    • Pará Arára: enma
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
    • Mapoyan:
      • Mapoyo: e:ma
      • Yabarana: atšima
    • Panare: chïma, chama
    • Pemongan:
      • Akawaio: e'ma
      • Macushi: e'ma, ema
      • Pemon: e'ma, ema
  • Waimiri-Atroari: wuma
  • Ye'kwana: ööma
  • Yukpan:
    • Yukpa: osema

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), “*ətema”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 15 February 2024
  • Meira, Sérgio (1998), A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎[2], Houston: Rice University, page 179
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008), A Carib grammar and dictionary‎[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 328
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ööma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[4], Lyon
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