i'moi

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Cariban *pumo (egg), with epenthetic initial i- after syllable reduction.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

i'moi

  1. egg

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “i'moi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “i'moi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “iʔmoi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021