ju'jö

See also: jüjö and jü'jö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ju'jö
Brazilian standard fu'fä
New Tribes ju'jä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *uputupô; compare Apalaí upuhpo, Trió putupë, Carijona hutuhë. Hall analyzes the final -jö as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hʷuʔhʷə]

Noun

ju'jö (possessed ju'jö)

  1. head
  2. main subject or matter (of a story, etc.)

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ju'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ju’jä, äju'jä, jhu'jä, Ju’jäkoomo”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hu:'hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “hūʔhə”, 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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