Ye'kwana

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Etymology

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Ultimately suffixed with -je (adverbializer).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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juushiije

  1. being fat, thick, stout

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hu:shi:he”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 301
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “hūšīhe”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021