jhumma

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV jhumma
Brazilian standard jhumma
New Tribes ijumma

Pronunciation

Verb

jhumma (transitive)

  1. to want, to desire
  2. to love

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jumma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “hyumma-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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