a'jö

See also: Ajo, ajo, ajó, aĵo, ajö, äjo, -ajo, -aĵo, and -ajö

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [aʔhʷə]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Cariban *apô (“arm”).

Alternative forms
  • ajö (Caura River dialect)

Noun

a'jö (obligatorily possessed; possessed a'jödü) (Cunucunuma River dialect)

  1. arm
  2. branch
Derived terms

Verb

a'jö

  1. (transitive) to dust, to sprinkle

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ajö, a'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “a'hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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