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Ye'kwana
- jootü (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology
Hall analyzes the final -tü as a fossilized derivational suffix.
Pronunciation
Noun
jöttü (possessed jöttü)
- (Caura River dialect) intestines
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jöttü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “jhootö”, 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 217, 291, 390: “[oho:tï] 'your(s) intestine' […] ho:tü 'my intestine' […] ho:tü 'intestine' […] ho:tü - my intestine […] hyo:tü - his intestine”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “hyōtɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021