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Ye'kwana
- je'dü (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *pe (“forehead”) with the possessed suffix -dü.
Pronunciation
Noun
jedü (obligatorily possessed; possessed jedü)
- face
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jedü”, 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 217, 289, 390: “he:dü 'my face' […] ----- -he' -dü 'face' […] he:dü - my face”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “heʔ-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021