ye'jö

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *jôtɨpô (“bone”). Hall analyzes the final -jö as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɟeʔhʷə]

Noun

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  1. bone

Derived terms

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ye'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “ye:'hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “yēʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 183
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