ajö

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

Swedish
FWOTD – 26 August 2013

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ajˈøː/

Interjection

ajö

  1. Alternative spelling of adjö

Usage notes

Matches the common pronunciation when used as a (somewhat informal) goodbye.

Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:ajö.

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms
  • a'jö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *apô (“arm”); compare Apalaí apo, Kari'na apo, Trió apë, Wayana apë, Waiwai apo, Akawaio apö, Pemon apue, Yao (South America) iapelly.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ahə]

Noun

ajö (obligatorily possessed; possessed ajödü) (Caura River dialect)

  1. arm
  2. branch

Derived terms

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 111
  • 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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