jüjö

See also: ju'jö and jü'jö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV jüjö
Brazilian standard föjä
New Tribes jöjä

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôpɨtɨpô (“seed”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hʷɨhə]

Noun

jüjö (Caura River dialect)

  1. seed
  2. pip, stone (seed inside fruits)

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “jüjö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho; Silva, Marcelo Costa da; Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021), “Chääju’jä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 228, 387: “[čë:hu'hë'] 'seeds' […] chö:hu'hö - seeds”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “čə̄huʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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