Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/mɨta

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

*mɨta (possessed *mɨtarɨ)

mouth

Descendants

Guianan:
- Apalaí: myhta, myta, nta
- Galibi Carib: ynta
- Taranoan:
  - Akurio: mïïta
  - Carijona: mïda
  - Trió: mïta, nta
- Wayana: mïta, mta
Kuikuroan:
- Kuikúro: nda, da, nta
Maquiritari: nta
Parukotoan:
- Hixkaryana: mta
- Kaxuyana: mɨta
- Waiwai: mta
Pekodian:
- Bakairí: ta
Venezuelan Cariban:
- Panare: nta
- Pemongan:
  - Akawaio: mïta, nta
  - Macushi: muta, nta
  - Pemon: müta

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 2022-05-17.)
Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, page 435.
Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “nta”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon