ju'jadü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ju'jadü
Brazilian standard	fu'fadö
New Tribes	ju'jadö

Etymology

From ju'jö (“head”) +‎ adü (“leaf”), thus literally ‘leaves of the head’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷuʔhʷaɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

ju'jadü (possessed ju'jadü)

1. hair of the head

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ju'jadü”, 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, page 289