tu'dhemjünü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	tu'dhemjünü
Brazilian standard	tu'dhemjönö
New Tribes	tu'dhemjönö

Etymology

Formed with -jünü (negative suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tuʔðemm̥ɨnɨ]

Noun

tu'dhemjünü

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) bachelor

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 218, 399: “[tu'demMhïnï] ~ [tu'ðemMhïnï] 'bachelor' […] tü'demhünü - bachelor”