je'dü
Ye'kwana edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cariban *pe (“forehead”) with the possessed suffix -dü.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
je'dü (obligatorily possessed; possessed je'dü)
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) face
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jedü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “he:dü”, 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) “heʔ-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021