ye'jö

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Cariban *jôtɨpô (bone). Hall analyzes the final -jö as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ye'jö (possessed ye'jö)

  1. bone

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ye'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ye:'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) “yēʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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    Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris[3], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 183