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Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
| ALIV
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| Brazilian standard
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| New Tribes
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Etymology
From öt- (intransitivizer) + the descendant of Proto-Cariban *amo (“to weep for”). Cognate to Kari'na otamo.
Pronunciation
Verb
aamo
- (intransitive, agentive) to cry, to weep
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aamo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 315, 401: “-amo- 'cry' […] wa:munö - tear (of eye)”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-amo-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021