ye'jö

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ye'jö
Brazilian standard ye'fä
New Tribes ye'jä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *jôtɨpô (bone). Hall analyzes the final -jö as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation

Noun

ye'jö (possessed ye'jö)

  1. bone

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ye'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ye:'hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “yēʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 183:ye’jä