Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/titi

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Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/titi

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

*titi

1. sun

   Synonym: *weju

2. day

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Apalaí: xixi
  • Wayana: hihi
• Kuikuroan:
  • Kuikúro: giti
• Maquiritari: shii
• Parukotoan:
  • Kaxuyana: isɨsɨ
• Pekodian:
  • Bakairí: xixi
  • Ikpeng: txitxi
  • Pará Arára: txitxi

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.)
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “shii”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon