dojü

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV dojü
Brazilian standard dofö
New Tribes dojö

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pɨropɨ (chest); compare Apalaí puropu, Kari'na ỳpopu, Trió pïropï, hropï, Akawaio pïropo, Yao (South America) pyelapo.

Pronunciation

Noun

dojü (obligatorily possessed; possessed dojüdü)

  1. chest
  2. breast (of a woman)

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “dojü”, 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, page 288
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ʔdohɨ-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021