amö'jüdü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV amö'jüdü
Brazilian standard amä'födö
New Tribes amä'jödö

Etymology

From amö (“to build”) +‎ -'jüdü (nominalizer of completed action).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [aməʔhʷɨɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

amö'jüdü

  1. roof or wall

References

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 386: “amö'hüdü - roof, wall”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “aməʔhɨdɨ”, 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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