saayu
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Inupiaq[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Russian чай (čaj).
Noun[edit]
saayu
- tea (Bering Straits)
- Saayu imiqtuni naguuruq.
- Tea is good to drink.
Synonyms[edit]
Ye'kwana[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
saayu (possessed saayui)
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “saayu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “sa:yu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “sayu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 41: “saiyu”