i'jotü

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tipotɨ (“hair”), with epenthetic initial i- after syllable reduction. Hall analyzes the final -tü as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iʔçotɨ]

Noun

i'jotü (possessed i'jotü)

1. feathers, hair, hide (of humans or animals)

Derived terms

• aya'ta'jotü

References

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “i'jhotö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “i'ho'tü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “iʔhōʔtɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021