ajö

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ajo"

Swedish

FWOTD – 26 August 2013

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ajˈøː/

Interjection

ajö

  1. alternative spelling of adjö

Usage notes

Matches the common pronunciation when used as a (somewhat informal) goodbye.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:ajö.

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ajö
Brazilian standard ajä
New Tribes ajä

Alternative forms

  • a'jö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *apô (“arm”); compare Apalaí apo, Kari'na apo, Trió apë, Wayana apë, Waiwai apo, Akawaio apö, Pemon apue, Yao (South America) iapelly.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ahə]

Noun

ajö (obligatorily possessed; possessed ajödü) (Caura River dialect)

  1. arm
  2. branch

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon, page 111
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 220, 289, 385: “d - a:'hö:du > da:'hö:du 'his arm' […] ----- -a'hö: -dü 'arm' […] a'hö - arm”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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