amö'jüdü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	amö'jüdü
Brazilian standard	amä'födö
New Tribes	amä'jödö

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aməʔhʷɨɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

amö'jüdü

1. roof or wall

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 386: “amö'hüdü - roof, wall”
• 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