aamo
Ye'kwana edit
Etymology edit
From öt- (intransitivizer) + the descendant of Proto-Cariban *amo (“to weep for”). Cognate to Kari'na otamo.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
aamo
- (intransitive, agentive) to cry, to weep
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aamo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wa:munö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 315
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-amo-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021