ajö
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Swedish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ajö
- Alternative spelling of adjö
Usage notes[edit]
Matches the common pronunciation when used as a (somewhat informal) goodbye.
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:ajö.
Ye'kwana[edit]
ALIV | ajö |
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Brazilian standard | ajä |
New Tribes | ajä |
Alternative forms[edit]
- a'jö (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Cariban *apô (“arm”); compare Apalaí apo, Kari'na apo, Trió apë, Wayana apë, Waiwai apo, Akawaio apö, Pemon apue, Yao (South America) iapelly.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ajö (obligatorily possessed; possessed ajödü) (Caura River dialect)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 111
- 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