daamö

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ajamô (“louse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [daːmə]

Noun

daamö (obligatorily possessed; possessed daamödü)

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) louse

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “da:mö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 288
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “dāmə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021