ju'jö

See also: jüjö and jü'jö

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *uputupô; compare Apalaí upuhpo, Trió putupë, Carijona hutuhë. Hall analyzes the final -jö as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷuʔhʷə]

Noun

ju'jö (possessed ju'jö)

1. head

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ju'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hu:'hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “hūʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021