ejema

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ejema
Brazilian standard	ejeema
New Tribes	ejeema

Etymology

From the root of töje (“precious, dear”) +‎ -ma (verbalizer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eheːma]

Verb

ejema (transitive)

1. to buy
2. to pay

Derived terms

• ejemajo

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ejema”, 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 389: “ehe:madü - buy, pay”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ehēma-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021