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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Hall analyzes the final -jö as a fossilized derivational suffix.
Pronunciation
Noun
öyajö (possessed öyajö or eyajö, possessed plural öyamo or eyamo) (Caura River dialect)
- master, ruler, chief
- possessor
- Synonym of adai (“primeval progenitor and culture hero of an animal species”)
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öyajö, -amo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 104
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ädhaajä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 218–220, 291, 387, 389, 396: “[ëda:hë] ~ [ëða:hë] 'chief' […] eda:mo 'sponsor' […] d - edahö > *chedahö > chödahö 'his chief' […] yeda:hö 'chief' […] chö:dahö - his chief […] e:da:mo - sponsor, mentor […] öda:hö - chief”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “ədāhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 31, 52, 54, 101–102, 108, 133–134
- 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 69: “ädhaajä”