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Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/titi

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

*titi

  1. sun
    Synonym: *weju
  2. day

Descendants
  • Guianan:
    • Apalaí: xixi
    • Wayana: hihi
  • Kuikuroan:
  • Parukotoan:
    • Kaxuyana: isïsï
  • Pekodian:
    • Bakairí: xixi
    • Ikpeng: txitxi
    • Pará Arára: txitxi
  • Ye'kwana: shii

References
  • 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), “*titi”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2022-04-11
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “shii”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
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