amö
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Cariban *amo.
Alternative forms
- (De'kwana) amo
Noun
amö (possessed amödü)
- (Caura River dialect) hand
Etymology 2
Verb
amö
- (transitive) to build, to construct
Derived terms
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