ji'jö

See also: Jijo

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ji'jö
Brazilian standard fi'jhä
New Tribes ji'jä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pitupô. Hall analyzes the final -jö as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hʷiʔçə]

Noun

ji'jö (possessed ji'jö)

  1. skin

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ji'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho; Silva, Marcelo Costa da; Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021), “äji'jhä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “hi'hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “hiʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021