ejö

See also: ejo, ejò, ējo, ėjo, ẹjọ, and -ejo

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ehə]

Verb

ejö

  1. (intransitive, agentive) to come

Usage notes

This verb takes an irregular suffix -ö that replaces its final vowel instead of the ordinary recent/distant past perfective suffix -i. Similarly, the plural form of the same suffix is -oto rather than -icho.

The imperative form is also irregular: singular ö'kö'de, plural ö'tökö.

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ejö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, pages 129, 215–216, 230–231
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-eʔ-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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