ajö
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
ajö
- Alternative spelling of adjö
Usage notes edit
Matches the common pronunciation when used as a (somewhat informal) goodbye.
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:ajö.
Ye'kwana edit
Alternative forms edit
- a'jö (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cariban *apô (“arm”); compare Apalaí apo, Kari'na apo, Trió apë, Wayana apë, Waiwai apo, Akawaio apö, Pemon apue, Yao (South America) iapelly.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ajö (obligatorily possessed; possessed ajödü) (Caura River dialect)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 111
- 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