dojü
Ye'kwana edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cariban *pɨropɨ (“chest”); compare Apalaí puropu, Kari'na ỳpopu, Trió pïropï, hropï, Akawaio pïropo, Yao (South America) pyelapo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dojü (obligatorily possessed; possessed dojüdü)
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “dojü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 288
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “ʔdohɨ-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021