e'ji

See also: eji, éji, and èj́i

Ye'kwana

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Cariban *pɨ (“to bathe”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [eʔhʷi]

Verb

e'ji

  1. (intransitive, patientive) to bathe
  2. (intransitive, patientive) to swim

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