töju

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See also: toju, tọju, tɔju, and tö'ju

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV töju
Brazilian standard täju
New Tribes täju

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tôpu.

Pronunciation

Noun

töju

  1. (Caura River dialect) stone, rock

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “töju, taju, toju”, 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 216, 399:[të'hu] 'stone' [] tö'hu - rock
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “təʔhu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021