ajö

See also: Ajo, ajo, ajó, aĵo, äjo, -ajo, -aĵo, -ajö, and a'jö

Swedish

FWOTD – 26 August 2013

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ajˈøː/

Interjection

ajö

1. Alternative spelling of adjö

Usage notes

Matches the common pronunciation when used as a (somewhat informal) goodbye.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ajö.

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• a'jö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *apô (“arm”); compare Apalaí apo, Kari'na apo, Trió apë, Wayana apë, Waiwai apo, Akawaio apö, Pemon apue, Yao (South America) iapelly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ahə]

Noun

ajö (obligatorily possessed; possessed ajödü) (Caura River dialect)

1. arm
2. branch

Derived terms

• ajö'müi
• ajö'sai

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 111
• 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