ju'jadü

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From ju'jö (“head”) +‎ adü (“leaf”), thus literally ‘leaves of the head’.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [hʷuʔhʷaɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

ju'jadü (possessed ju'jadü)

  1. hair of the head

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ju'jadü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
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