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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From the root of töje (“precious, dear”) + -ma (verbalizer).
Pronunciation
Verb
ejema (transitive)
- to buy
- to pay
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ejema”, 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 389: “ehe:madü - buy, pay”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “ehēma-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021