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Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/nunô
Proto-Cariban
Noun
*nunô
- moon
- month
Descendants
- Guianan:
- Apalaí: nuno
- Galibi Carib: nuno
- Taranoan:
- Carijona: nuna
- Trió: nunnë
- Wayana: nunuwë
- Kuikuroan:
- Kuikúro: ngune
- Maquiritari: nuunö
- Parukotoan:
- Hixkaryana: nuno
- Waiwai: nuuno, nuuñi
- Pekodian:
- Bakairí: nunâ
- Ikpeng: nuno
- Pará Arára: nuno
- Venezuelan Cariban:
- Mapoyan:
- Mapoyo: nu:në
- Yabarana: nunë
- Mapoyan:
- Waimiri-Atroari: nenuwe
- Yukpan:
- Yukpa: kuno
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 390.
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “nuunö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon