öiye

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	öiye
Brazilian standard	äiye
New Tribes	äiye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əjje]

Noun

öiye (obligatorily possessed; possessed öiyedü or eiyedü)

1. brother-in-law (of a man)

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öiye”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 111
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 220, 386: “d - ey'yedü > chey'yedü 'brother-in-law' […] chei'yedü - his brother-in-law”
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 68: “yeiyedü […] eiyedü”