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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *ôpɨtɨpô (“seed”).
Pronunciation
Noun
jüjö (Caura River dialect)
- seed
- pip, stone (seed inside fruits)
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jüjö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “Chääju’jä”, 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 228, 387: “[čë:hu'hë'] 'seeds' […] chö:hu'hö - seeds”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “čə̄huʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021