-jö

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV -jö
Brazilian standard -jä
New Tribes -jä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *-pô.

Pronunciation

Suffix

-jö

  1. (non-productive) forms certain nouns whose possessed forms take no further suffix, with no clear semantic contribution

Derived terms

References

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291