akoicha'jüdü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV akoicha'jüdü
Brazilian standard akoicha'födö
New Tribes acoicha'jödö

Etymology

From akoicha (“to end, to kill”) +‎ -'jüdü (nominalizer of completed action).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [akojt͡ʃaʔhʷɨɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

akoicha'jüdü

  1. termination point, limit of something, top, tip

References

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 224, 386: “*akoychahüdü > *akoytchahhüdü > akoy'cha'hüdü 'at the termination point' […] akoi'cha'hüdü - termination point, tip, top”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “akoiʔčaʔhɨdɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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