yedü

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV yedü
Brazilian standard yedö
New Tribes yedö

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban , *jô (tooth) with the possessed suffix -dü.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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yedü (obligatorily possessed; possessed yedü)

  1. (Caura River dialect) tooth

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yedü”, 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 218, 288, 388:[dedï] ~ [ðedï] 'teeth' [] ----- -de' -dü 'teeth' [] dedü - teeth
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “dedɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021