aamo
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Ye'kwana[edit]
ALIV | aamo |
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Brazilian standard | aamo |
New Tribes | aamo |
Etymology[edit]
From öt- (intransitivizer) + the descendant of Proto-Cariban *amo (“to weep for”). Cognate to Kari'na otamo.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
aamo
- (intransitive, agentive) to cry, to weep
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aamo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wa:munö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 315
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-amo-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021