dedü

See also: dedu

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• yedü (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ô, *jô (“tooth”) with the possessed suffix -dü.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [deɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

dedü (obligatorily possessed; possessed dedü)

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) tooth

Derived terms

• tünküi dedü
• dedü aküdü

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yedü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “dedü”, 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) “dedɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021