inñaju'tajö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV inñaju'tajö
Brazilian standard innhaju'tajä
New Tribes inñaju'tajä

Etymology

From nneju'tö (“to put up scaffolding”) +‎ -ajö (perfective past nominalizer), with epenthetic initial i-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [inɲahuʔtahə]

Noun

inñaju'tajö

  1. ladder, scaffolding

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 391: “inñahu'tahö - climbed, ladder”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “inɲahuʔtahə”, 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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