See also: jüjö and jü'jö

Ye'kwana edit

Variant orthographies
ALIV ju'jö
Brazilian standard fu'fä
New Tribes ju'jä

Etymology edit

From Proto-Cariban *uputupô; compare Apalaí upuhpo, Trió putupë, Carijona hutuhë. Hall analyzes the final -jö as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ju'jö (possessed ju'jö)

  1. head

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ju'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “äju'jä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hu:'hö”, 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) “hūʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021