Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/weju

This Proto-Cariban entry contains reconstructed words 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

*weju

sun
Synonym: *titi
light
day

Descendants

Guianan:
- Apalaí: eju
- Galibi Carib: weju
- Taranoan:
  - Akurio: wei
  - Carijona: wei
  - Trió: wei
Kuikuroan:
- Kuikúro: ĩbo, ĩmbo (“light”)
Maquiritari: weyu, wedu (“rays of the sun, summer, year”)
Parukotoan:
- Hixkaryana: weyu (“tar”)
Venezuelan Cariban:
- Panare: we (“light”)
- Pemongan:
  - Akawaio: wei, wöi
  - Macushi: wei
  - Pemon: wei
Waimiri-Atroari: woi
Yukpan:
- Yukpa: wecho

References

Gildea, Spike & Payne, Doris (2007) “Is Greenberg’s ‘Macro-Carib’ viable?” in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, Belém, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 19-72.
Meira, Sérgio and Bruna Franchetto (2005) “The southern Cariban languages and the Cariban family” in International Journal of American Linguistics 71, pages 127-192.
Matter, Florian (ed.) (2021) Comparative Cariban Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at , Accessed on 2022-04-11.)
Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, page 424.
Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “wedu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon

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