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

Noun

*tuna

water

Descendants

Guianan:
- Apalaí: tuna
- Kari'na: tuna
- Proto-Taranoan: *tuna
  - Akurio: tuna
  - Carijona: tuna
  - Trió: tuna
- Wayana: tuna
Kuikuroan:
- Kuikúro: tunga, tuã
Opón: tuna
Parukotoan:
- Hixkaryana: tuna
- Kaxuyana: tuna
- Waiwai: tuuna
Sapará: tu꞉ná
Venezuelan Cariban:
- Chaima: tuna
- Mapoyan:
  - Mapoyo: tuna
  - Yabarana: tunaa, tuna
- Panare: tïna, tuna
- Pemongan:
  - Akawaio: tuna
  - Macushi: tuna
  - Pemon: tuna
  - Purukotó: tuná
- Tamanaku: tuna
Waimiri-Atroari: syna
Wayumará: tuná
Ye'kwana: tuna
Yukpan:
- Yukpa: kuna

References

Gildea, Spike; Doris Payne (2007), “Is Greenberg’s ‘Macro-Carib’ viable?”, in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, volume 2, issue 2, Belém, pages 19–72
Florian Matter, editor (2021), “*tuna”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2022-04-12
Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎, Houston: Rice University, page 189

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