ku'jö

See also: kujo and kujō

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ku'jö
Brazilian standard ku'fä
New Tribes cu'jä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ikutupô; compare Apalaí ikuhpo, Kari'na ikùpo, Trió ikutupë, Wayana ikutpë, Akawaio iku'pö, Macushi iku'pî, Pemon iku'pö.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kuʔhʷə]

Noun

ku'jö

  1. lake, pool

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ku'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 228, 387: “[č̣u:'hë] 'lake' […] chu:'hö - lake”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “čūʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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