ajöi

See also: ajoi

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ajöi
Brazilian standard ajäi
New Tribes ajäi

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *apôti (“to seize”). Compare also ajö (“arm”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ahəj]

Verb

ajöi (transitive)

  1. to grasp, to grab
  2. to record (someone’s words, etc.)

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ajöi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ahəi-”, 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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