jedü
Ye'kwana
editALIV | jedü |
---|---|
Brazilian standard | fedö |
New Tribes | jedö |
Alternative forms
edit- je'dü (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology
editFrom Proto-Cariban *pe (“forehead”) with the possessed suffix -dü.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editjedü (obligatorily possessed; possessed jedü)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jedü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 289, 390: “he:dü 'my face' […] ----- -he' -dü 'face' […] he:dü - my face”
- 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