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Fula
Noun
jaaja o (plural jaajiraaɓe ɓe)
- (Pular) bigger sister
References
Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *papa, a nursery word in origin; compare Apalaí papa, Kari'na papa, Trió papa, Akawaio papa, Macushi papa, Pemon papa, Yao (South America) pape, as well as (from non-Cariban languages) Wayampi papa.
Pronunciation
Noun
jaaja
- first-person possessed form of ümü
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jaaja”, 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: “ha:ha - papa”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “haha”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 69, 73: “waja”