je'dü

See also: jedu, jedü, and jědu

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• jedü

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pe (“forehead”) with the possessed suffix -dü.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷeʔdɨ]

Noun

je'dü (obligatorily possessed; possessed je'dü)

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) face

Derived terms

• mado je'dü

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jedü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “he:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “heʔ-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021