jümü

See also: jumu and jǔmù

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	jümü
Brazilian standard	fömö
New Tribes	jömö

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pɨmɨ (“neck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷɨmɨ]

Noun

jümü (possessed jümüdü)

1. neck

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jümü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “fömö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hü:mü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “hɨ̄mɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021