a'jö
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Ye'kwana
[edit]ALIV | a'jö |
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Brazilian standard | a'fä |
New Tribes | a'jä |
Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Cariban *apô (“arm”).
Alternative forms
[edit]- ajö (Caura River dialect)
Noun
[edit]a'jö (obligatorily possessed; possessed a'jödü) (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]a'jö
- (transitive) to dust, to sprinkle
References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ajö, a'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “a'hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021