ömije

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ömije
Brazilian standard ämiijhe
New Tribes ämiije

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately suffixed with -je (adverbializer), perhaps from ömi (“fingernail, claw”) +‎ -je.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [əmiːçe]

Adverb

ömije

  1. (now chiefly Cunucunuma River dialect) being hungry

Usage notes

  • Cáceres labels the variant amije as the current pronunciation in the Caura River dialect.

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ömije, amije”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “amijjhe”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ömi:he”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “əmīhe”, 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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