Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV tamjö'ne
Brazilian standard tamjä'ne
New Tribes tamjä'ne

Etymology

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Derived from amjö'ma (to speed (something) up).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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tamjö'ne

  1. being fast, quick, rapid

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tamjö'ne”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tamhö:'ne”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 302
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tamhə̄ʔne”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021