yaji

yaji

1. Rōmaji transcription of やじ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ヤジ

• IPA^(key): /jaci/

yaji

1. The father of one's wife; father-in-law.

• Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.

From jìyà (“to be poor”).

• IPA^(key): /jà.d͡ʒì/

yàjì

1. poverty

• yàjìnci (“poor person”)

Perhaps borrowed from a Yanomami language; compare Yanomamö yãpi (“grey-winged trumpeter”).

• IPA^(key): [ɟahi]

yaji

1. the agami or grey-winged trumpeter, Psophia crepitans

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yaji”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “yaji”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎^[2] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 124
• Ye’kwana nonoodö: yawaadeejudinnha wenhä = Território Ye’kwana: a vida em Auaris‎^[3] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Portuguese), São Paulo: ISA – Instituto Socioambiental, 2017, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 91: “yaji”
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “iahi”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 36: “yaji”