< Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban
Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ômija
Proto-Cariban
Noun
*ômija
- hand
- Synonym: *amo
Descendants
- Guianan:
- Apalaí: oma, ema
- Galibi Carib: aina
- Proto-Taranoan: *enja, *ənja
- Akurio: enya
- Carijona: ëña
- Trió: enja, anja
- Kuikuroan:
- Kuikúro: inhatü
- Pekodian:
- Bakairí: ema
- Ikpeng: mya
- Pará Arára: emia
- Venezuelan Cariban:
- Panare: eña
- Pemongan:
- Akawaio: miya', emiya
- Macushi: enya, miya
- Pemon: yenna, enya, miya
- Yukpan:
- Yukpa: ema
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 2022-04-22.)
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, page 213–214.