öyajö

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Hall analyzes the final -jö as a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

öyajö (possessed öyajö or eyajö, possessed plural öyamo or eyamo) (Caura River dialect)

  1. master, ruler, chief
  2. possessor
  3. Synonym of adai (“primeval progenitor and culture hero of an animal species”)

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References[edit]

  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ədāhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öyajö, -amo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[2], Lyon, page 104
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “e:da:mo, öda:jö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
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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 69
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