jonü

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV jonü
Brazilian standard fonö
New Tribes jonö

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Hall analyzes the final -nü as a fossilized derivational suffix.

Noun

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jonü (obligatorily possessed; possessed jonü)

  1. (in relation to a man) sister’s son, sororal nephew
  2. (in relation to a woman) brother’s son, fraternal nephew
  3. female parallel cousin’s son
    1. father’s brother’s daughter’s son
    2. mother’s sister’s daughter’s son
  4. male cross-cousin’s son
    1. father’s sister’s son’s son
    2. mother’s brother’s son’s son
  5. great-grandson
  6. sibling’s great-grandson, great-grandnephew
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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jonü

  1. navel, belly button
  2. (often in the past possessed form) afterbirth; placenta and umbilical cord

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jonü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 291, 390:ho:nü 'my male cousin' [] ho:nü 'nephew' [] ho:nü - my cousin
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “honɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 223:ijomjüdü
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 70–71, 74:jonü