jüjö

See also: ju'jö and jü'jö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	jüjö
Brazilian standard	föjä
New Tribes	jöjä

Alternative forms

• öju'jö (Cunucunuma River dialect and Brazil)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôpɨtɨpô (“seed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷɨhə]

Noun

jüjö (Caura River dialect)

1. seed
2. pip, stone (seed inside fruits)

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jüjö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “Chääju’jä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 228, 387: “[čë:hu'hë'] 'seeds' […] chö:hu'hö - seeds”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “čə̄huʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021