jetü
See also: ĵetu
Ye'kwana edit
Alternative forms edit
- jeetü (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cariban *petɨ (“thigh”). Hall analyzes the final -tü as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
jetü (possessed jetü)
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jetü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “he:tü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “hētɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021