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See also: amo,
AMO,
Amo,
amó,
amò,
amô,
ãmo,
amọ,
amɔ,
Amo.,
-amo,
amo-,
amo', and амо
Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Cariban *amo.
- amo (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Noun
amö (possessed amödü)
- (Caura River dialect and Brazil) hand
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
amö
- (transitive) to build, to construct
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “amö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “amä”, 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 221, 229, 386: “yamo:dü which means 'my hand' in the dialect of the present study […] [amọ] 'hand' […] amo - hand”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “amō-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021