ajö'müi

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From ajö (arm).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ahəʔmɨj]

Noun

ajö'müi

  1. decorative armband tied tightly above the bicep

References

  • Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 41:ahatmi
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ahəʔmɨy”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ajö'müi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
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