ejö

See also: ejo, ejò, ējo, ėjo, ẹjọ, and -ejo

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ehə]

Verb

ejö

1. (intransitive, agentive) to come

Usage notes

This verb takes an irregular suffix -ö that replaces its final vowel instead of the ordinary recent/distant past perfective suffix -i. Similarly, the plural form of the same suffix is -oto rather than -icho.

The imperative form is also irregular: singular ö'kö'de, plural ö'tökö.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ejö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 129, 215–216, 230–231
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-eʔ-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021