ajö'müi

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ajö'müi
Brazilian standard	ajä'möi
New Tribes	ajä'möi
historical ad hoc	ahatmi

Etymology

From ajö (“arm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ahəʔmɨj]

Noun

ajö'müi

1. decorative armband tied tightly above the bicep

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 385: “ahö'müi - decorative arm bands or bracelets”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ahəʔmɨy”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 41: “ahatmi”