ö'mu

See also: omu and ömu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ö'mu
Brazilian standard ä'mu
New Tribes ä'mu

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôtjôkumu (“knee”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [əʔmu]

Noun

ö'mu (obligatorily possessed; possessed ö'mudu or e'mudu)

  1. knee (of a human or animal)
  2. elbow

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tö'muuye”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon, page 112
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ä'mu”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ö:'mu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ə̄ʔmu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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