jaaja

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Fula

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Noun

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jaaja o (plural jaajiraaɓe ɓe)

  1. (Pular) bigger sister

References

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV jaaja
Brazilian standard faaja
New Tribes jaaja

Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *papa, a nursery word in origin; compare Apalaí papa, Kari'na papa, Trió papa, Akawaio papa, Macushi papa, Pemon papa, Yao (South America) pape, as well as (from non-Cariban languages) Wayampi papa.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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jaaja

  1. first-person possessed form of ümü

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jaaja”, 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:ha:ha - papa
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “haha”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 69, 73:waja