amö

See also: AMO, Amo, amo, amó, amò, Amo., -amo, and амо

Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
ALIV amö
Brazilian standard amä
New Tribes amä

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [amə]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Cariban *amo.

Alternative forms
  • amo (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Noun

amö (possessed amödü)

  1. (Caura River dialect and Brazil) hand
Derived terms

Verb

amö

  1. (transitive) to build, to construct
Derived terms

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “amö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “amä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “amo”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “amō-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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