ajö'müi

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ajö'müi
Brazilian standard ajä'möi
New Tribes ajä'möi
historical ad hoc ahatmi

Etymology

From ajö (arm).

Pronunciation

Noun

ajö'müi

  1. decorative armband tied tightly above the bicep

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 385:ahö'müi - decorative arm bands or bracelets
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ahəʔmɨy”, 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, page 41:ahatmi