Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/tuna

This Proto-Cariban entry contains reconstructed terms 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

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Noun

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*tuna

  1. water
    Synonym: *paru
  2. river, watercourse
  3. rain
    Synonym: *konopo

Descendants

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References

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  • Gildea, Spike, Doris Payne (2007) “Is Greenberg’s ‘Macro-Carib’ viable?”, in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, volume 2, number 2, Belém, pages 19–72
  • Meira, Sérgio, Bruna Franchetto (2005) “The southern Cariban languages and the Cariban family”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 71, pages 127–192
  • Florian Matter, editor (2021), “*tuna”, in Comparative Cariban Database[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2022-04-12
  • Florian Matter, editor (2021), “*tuna”, in Comparative Cariban Database[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-28
  • Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology[3], Houston: Rice University, page 189
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[4], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 392
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