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Ye'kwana
- jannü (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Pronunciation
Noun
janü (obligatorily possessed; possessed janüdü)
- (Caura River dialect) son-in-law
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “janü”, 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, pages 219, 289: “ha:nü 'my male cousin' […] ----- -hannü -dü 'son-in-law'”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “-hannɨ-dɨ”, 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, 71, 74–75: “jannüdü”