dedü

See also: dedu

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms
  • yedü (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ô, *jô (“tooth”) with the possessed suffix -dü.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [deɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

dedü (obligatorily possessed; possessed dedü)

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) tooth

Derived terms

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yedü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, 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, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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