Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/ɨrɨ

Verb

 * 1) to do
 * 2) to make
 * 3) to put, to set, to place
 * 4) to give

Reconstruction notes
The t-added form of this word can be confidently reconstructed as ; however, the prefix that introduces it takes the form before vowels and  before consonants, so that the word may break down as either  or  (both segmentations are given without comment in Gildea 2007). Descendants without the prefix show forms both with and without an initial, so that the root might plausibly be reconstructed as either or.

Descendants

 * Guianan:
 * Parukotoan:
 * Venezuelan Cariban:
 * Mapoyan:
 * Pemongan:
 * Parukotoan:
 * Venezuelan Cariban:
 * Mapoyan:
 * Pemongan:
 * Venezuelan Cariban:
 * Mapoyan:
 * Pemongan:
 * Pemongan:
 * Pemongan: