Reconstruction:Proto-Tupi-Guarani/pɨtun

This Proto-Tupi-Guarani 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-Tupi-Guarani

    Noun

    *pɨtun[1][2][3]

    1. night
      Synonym: *pɨt͡sa

    Adjective

    *pɨtun[4]

    1. dark
      Synonym: *un

    Descendants

    • Araweté: pitõ
    • Guajajára: pyhaw
    • Guarayu: pɨ̈tü
    • Mbyá Guaraní: pytũ
    • Old Tupi: putun, putũ, pytun, pyxun, putuna, pytuna, pyxuna
    • Paraguayan Guaraní: pyhare
    • Tenharim: ypytun
    • Urubú-Kaapor: pytun

    References

    1. ^ Miriam Lemle (1971) “Internal classification of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic family”, in David Bendor-Samuel, editor, Tupi Studies (SIL Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields; 29), volume I, Norman: SIL of the University of Oklahoma, page 123, line 139
    2. ^ Charles Owen Schleicher (1998) Comparative and internal reconstruction of the Tupi-Guarani language family, Madison: University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 338, line 96
    3. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (17 March 2000) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 193, line 548
    4. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (17 March 2000) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 201, line 653b