e'ji

See also: eji, éji, and èj́i

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	e'ji
Brazilian standard	e'fi
New Tribes	e'ji

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Cariban *pɨ (“to bathe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eʔhʷi]

Verb

e'ji (intransitive, patientive)

1. to bathe
2. to swim

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “e'ji”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 400: “tüwö'hiyü - to swim, to bathe”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨwəʔhiyɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “Also hənɨn-nə; and tɨwəʔhiyɨ, with the sense of bathe, swim.”