amö'jüdü

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From amö (“to build”) +‎ -'jüdü (nominalizer of completed action).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aməʔhʷɨɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

amö'jüdü

1. roof or wall

References

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