töju

See also: toju, tọju, tɔju, and tö'ju

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	töju
Brazilian standard	täju
New Tribes	täju

Alternative forms

• toju, taju (Tada'kwanña)
• tö'ju (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tôpu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [təhu]

Noun

töju

1. (Caura River dialect) stone, rock

Derived terms

• taju'kadai
• töju'kö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “töju, taju, toju”, 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 216, 399: “[të'hu] 'stone' […] tö'hu - rock”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “təʔhu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021