öyajö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	öyajö
Brazilian standard	äyaajä
New Tribes	äyaajä

Alternative forms

• ödhajö (Cunucunuma River dialect and Brazil)
• ödajö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əjaːhə]

Noun

öyajö (possessed öyajö or eyajö, possessed plural öyamo or eyamo) (Caura River dialect)

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

Derived terms

• aichudi eyajö
• eyajö'tö
• ödemi eyajö
• wötunnö eyajö

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 Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 218–220, 291, 387, 389, 396: “[ëda:hë] ~ [ëða:hë] 'chief' […] eda:mo 'sponsor' […] d - edahö > *chedahö > chödahö 'his chief' […] yeda:hö 'chief' […] chö:dahö - his chief […] e:da:mo - sponsor, mentor […] öda:hö - chief”
• 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
• 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”