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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *tôpu.
Pronunciation
Noun
töju
- (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