cama’i
Alutiiq
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Yupik *cama-i- (“greeting, welcome”) historically said as speaker looks down at own hands while shaking another’s, thus likely from Proto-Eskimo *cam- demonstrative base, “down, down toward”
Interjection
editcama’i
References
edit- Fortescue, Michael, Steven Jacobson, and Lawrence Kaplan. 2010. Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates. Alaska Native Language Center.
- Leer, Jeff. Classroom Grammar of Koniag Alutiiq, Kodiak Island Dialect, Volume 1, Alaska Native Language Center, 1990