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Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
| ALIV
|
ooje
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| Brazilian standard
|
oofe
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| New Tribes
|
ooje
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- jooje (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology
Ultimately suffixed with -je (adverbializer).
Pronunciation
Adverb
ooje (Caura River dialect)
- much, a lot, many
- to a great extent, very
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ooje”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ho:he”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 305
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “hōhe”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021