daamö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	daamö
Brazilian standard	daamä
New Tribes	daamä

Alternative forms

• *dhaamö (Cunucunuma River dialect)
• *yaamö (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ajamô (“louse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [daːmə]

Noun

daamö (obligatorily possessed; possessed daamödü)

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) louse

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 288, 387: “----- -da:mö -dü 'louse' […] da:mö - louse”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “dāmə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021