ömije

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• amije

Etymology

Ultimately suffixed with -je (adverbializer), perhaps from ömi (“fingernail, claw”) +‎ -je.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əmiːhe]

Adverb

ömije

1. being hungry

Usage notes

• Cáceres labels the variant amije as the current pronunciation in the Caura River dialect.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ömije, amije”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ömi:he”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “əmīhe”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021