naudö'jüdü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV naudö'jüdü
Brazilian standard naudä'födö
New Tribes naudä'jödö

Etymology

From n- (transitive agent marker) +‎ audö (“to clear (a garden)”) +‎ -'jüdü (completed action nominalizer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [nawɾ̠ʷəʔhʷɨɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

naudö'jüdü

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) conuco or garden not ready to be cultivated

References

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ñadwahüdü, nadwöhüdü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.