chööju'jö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	chööju'jö
Brazilian standard	chääju'fä
New Tribes	chääju'jä

Etymology

Perhaps from chööjü (“stump, midrib of a leaf”) +‎ ju'jö (“head”), or else chööjü (“stump, midrib of a leaf”) +‎ -'jö (“former”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃəːhuʔhʷə]

Noun

chööju'jö

1. seeds

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 387: “chö:hu'hö - seeds”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “čə̄huʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021