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jaaja

See also: Jaaja

Fula edit

Noun edit

jaaja o (plural jaajiraaɓe ɓe)

  1. (Pular) bigger sister

References edit

Ye'kwana edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Cariban *papa, a nursery word in origin; compare Apalaí papa, Kari'na papa, Trió papa, Akawaio papa, Macushi papa, Pemon papa, Yao (South America) pape, as well as (from non-Cariban languages) Wayampi papa.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

jaaja

  1. first-person possessed form of ümü

References edit

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jaaja”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ha:ha”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “haha”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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