yedü
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Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | yedü |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | yedö |
| New Tribes | yedö |
Alternative forms
[edit]- dedü (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Cariban *ô, *jô (“tooth”) with the possessed suffix -dü.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yedü (obligatorily possessed; possessed yedü)
- (Caura River dialect) tooth
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yedü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “dedü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 288
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “dedɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021