nonojoichö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV nonojoichö
Brazilian standard nonoofoichä
New Tribes nonoojoichä

Etymology

Perhaps from nono (“earth, soil”) +‎ -joi (“via”) +‎ -tö.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [nonoːhʷojt͡ʃə]

Adverb

nonojoichö

  1. being low, short, tiny, close to the ground

References

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “*nonohoychöto > *nonohoytchöto > nonohoy'chöto 'below' […] nonoho'chö, nonoho'chöto 'low, short' […] nonohoi'chöto - low, tiny (close to the ground)”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 224, 302, 395
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “nonohoʔčə”, 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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