inñaju'tajö

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV inñaju'tajö
Brazilian standard innhaju'tajä
New Tribes inñaju'tajä

Etymology

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From nneju'tö (to put up scaffolding) +‎ -ajö (perfective past nominalizer), with epenthetic initial i-.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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inñaju'tajö

  1. ladder, scaffolding

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 391:inñahu'tahö - climbed, ladder
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “inɲahuʔtahə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021