ooje

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms
  • jooje (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

Ultimately suffixed with -je (adverbializer).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [oːhʷe]

Adverb

ooje (Caura River dialect)

  1. much, a lot, many
  2. to a great extent, very

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ooje”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ho:he”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 305
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “hōhe”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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