amö

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See also: amo, AMO, Amo, amó, amò, amô, ãmo, amọ, amɔ, Amo., -amo, amo-, amo', and амо

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV amö
Brazilian standard amä
New Tribes amä

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Cariban *amo.

Alternative forms

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  • amo (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Noun

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amö (possessed amödü)

  1. (Caura River dialect and Brazil) hand
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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amö

  1. (transitive) to build, to construct
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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “amö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “amä”, 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 221, 229, 386:yamo:dü which means 'my hand' in the dialect of the present study [] [amọ] 'hand' [] amo - hand
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “amō-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021