amö

See also: Appendix:Variations of "amo"

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV amö
Brazilian standard amä
New Tribes amä

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [amə]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Cariban *amo.

Alternative forms

  • amo (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Noun

amö (possessed amödü)

  1. (Caura River dialect and Brazil) hand
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

amö

  1. (transitive) to build, to construct
Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “amö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “amä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 221, 229, 386: “yamo:dü which means 'my hand' in the dialect of the present study […] [amọ] 'hand' […] amo - hand”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “amō-dɨ”, 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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