a'jö
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Ye'kwana[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Cariban *apô (“arm”).
Alternative forms[edit]
- ajö (Caura River dialect)
Noun[edit]
a'jö (obligatorily possessed; possessed a'jödü) (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
a'jö
- (transitive) to dust, to sprinkle
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ajö, a'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “a'hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021