ödajö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ödajö
Brazilian standard	ädaajä
New Tribes	ädaajä

Alternative forms

• öyajö (Caura River dialect)
• ödhajö (Brazil)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əɾ̠aːhə]

Noun

ödajö (possessed ödajö or edajö, possessed plural ödamo or edamö) (Cunucunuma River dialect)

1. master, ruler, chief
2. possessor
3. Synonym of adai (“primeval progenitor and culture hero of an animal species”)

Derived terms

• aichudi edajö
• edajö'tö
• ödemi edajö
• wötunnö edajö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öyajö, -amo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 104
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ädhaajä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ədāhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “e:da:mo, öda:jö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 31, 52, 54, 101–102, 108, 133–134
• Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[4], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 69: “ädhaajä”