amö

See also: AMO, Amo, amo, amó, amò, Amo., -amo, and амо

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [amə]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Cariban *amo.

Alternative forms

• amo (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Noun

amö (possessed amödü)

1. (Caura River dialect) hand

Derived terms

• aakö amojato
• aaköiche'a amojato
• aduwaawö amojato
• amojadö
• tooni amojato

 

Etymology 2

Verb

amö

1. (transitive) to build, to construct

Derived terms

• aamö
• amö'jüdü

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “amö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “amo”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “amō-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021