Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ôtjôkuna

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

*ôtjôkuna (possessed *ôtjôkunarɨ)

1. knee

   Synonym: *ôtjôkumu

Related terms

• *ôtjôkumu

Descendants

• Guianan:
  • Kari'na: ókuna
• Parukotoan:
  • Hixkaryana: esokna
  • Waiwai: ekna
• Venezuelan Cariban:
  • Yao (South America): goenaly
• ⇒ Ye'kwana: ekunaka

References

• 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), “*ətjəkumu / ətjəkuna”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-23
• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[2], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 328
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ekunaka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon