a'jö

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

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aʔhʷə]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Cariban *apô (“arm”).

Alternative forms

• ajö (Caura River dialect)

Noun

a'jö (obligatorily possessed; possessed a'jödü) (Cunucunuma River dialect)

1. arm
2. branch

Derived terms

• ajö'müi
• ajö'sai

Etymology 2

Verb

a'jö

1. (transitive) to dust, to sprinkle

References

• 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