öyataajö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	öyataajö
Brazilian standard	äyaataajä
New Tribes	äyaataajä

Etymology

Derived from a variant form of aya'ta (“armpit”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What’s the suffix? Are the differences in the stem dialectal?”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əjaːtaːhə]

Noun

öyataajö

1. armpit

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öyataajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon