ta'jujuñe

Ye'kwana

Etymology

Apparently from t- -e (adverbializer) +‎ ajujinña (“to extend, to stretch”), though the expected form (at least in the Caura River dialect) would be *tajujinña. It may be that the Cunucunuma River form differs, or that one term or the other was not accurately recorded.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [taʔhʷuhʷuːɲe]

Adverb

ta'jujuñe

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) being wide, broad

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ta'huhu:ñe”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 301
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “taʔhuhūne”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021