ku'jö

See also: kujo and kujō

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ku'jö
Brazilian standard	ku'fä
New Tribes	cu'jä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ikutupô; compare Apalaí ikuhpo, Kari'na ikùpo, Trió ikutupë, Wayana ikutpë, Akawaio iku'pö, Macushi iku'pî, Pemon iku'pö.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuʔhʷə]

Noun

ku'jö

1. lake, pool

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ku'jö”, 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, pages 228, 387: “[č̣u:'hë] 'lake' […] chu:'hö - lake”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “čūʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021