yedü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	yedü
Brazilian standard	yedö
New Tribes	yedö

Alternative forms

• dedü (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ô, *jô (“tooth”) with the possessed suffix -dü.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɟeɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

yedü (obligatorily possessed; possessed yedü)

1. (Caura River dialect) tooth

Derived terms

• tünküi yedü
• yedü aküdü

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yedü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 218, 288, 388: “[dedï] ~ [ðedï] 'teeth' […] ----- -de' -dü 'teeth' […] dedü - teeth”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “dedɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021