öiye
Ye'kwana
editALIV | öiye |
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Brazilian standard | äiye |
New Tribes | äiye |
Pronunciation
editNoun
editöiye (obligatorily possessed; possessed öiyedü or eiyedü)
- brother-in-law (of a man)
References
edit- 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, 228, 386: “d - ey'yedü > chey'yedü 'brother-in-law' […] [čeiyedï] 'his 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”