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Inupiaq
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian чай (čaj).
Noun
saayu
- tea (Bering Straits)
Saayu imiqtuni naguuruq.- Tea is good to drink.
Synonyms
Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
| ALIV
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| Brazilian standard
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saayu
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| New Tribes
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Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish sal.
Pronunciation
Noun
saayu (possessed saayui)
- salt
- broad wrist bracelet made of white beads
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “saayu”, 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 226, 290, 398: “i-sa:yuy > *sya:yuy > sha:yuy 'his salt' […] sayu -sa:yu -i 'salt' […] sa:yu - salt”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “sayu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 41: “saiyu”