intermediate Proto-Carib affixes in Proto Wayampi-Emerillon-Zo’é

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information and examples are from Rose (2012). Detailed reconstruction allows determining that the plural marker was borrowed from an intermediate Proto-Carib language into Proto Wayampi-Emerillon-Zo’é. The marker is a suffix in two daughter languages (Wayampi and Emerillon) and a free form in Zo’é.

1 plural suffix

  • -kom (Emerillon), -kõ (Wayampi) ‘plural’, e.g. wãĩwĩ-kom (women-pl) ‘women’ (Emerillon), e-mɛmɨ-kũ (1sg-child-pl) ‘my children’ (Wayampi)