inñaju'tajö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	inñaju'tajö
Brazilian standard	innhaju'tajä
New Tribes	inñaju'tajä

Etymology

From nneju'tö (“to put up scaffolding”) +‎ -ajö (perfective past nominalizer), with epenthetic initial i-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [inɲahuʔtahə]

Noun

inñaju'tajö

1. ladder, scaffolding

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 391: “inñahu'tahö - climbed, ladder”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “inɲahuʔtahə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021