ö'ji

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See also: oji, ōji, öji, and ɔji

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôtipi (lip).

Pronunciation

Noun

ö'ji (obligatorily possessed; possessed ö'jiyü or e'jiyü)

  1. lip, lips
  2. edge, rim, lip, border
  3. water’s edge, shore

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ö'ji”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 111
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ö:'hi, chö'hiyü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ə̄ʔhi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “čəʔhiyu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021