jüü

See also: Juu, juu, and juú

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *wɨpɨ; compare Apalaí ypy, Kari'na wypy, Trió pïï, Wayana ïpï, Waiwai ïpï, Akawaio wï', Macushi wî', Pemon wük.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [hʷɨː]

Noun

jüü (possessed jüüdü)

  1. mountain, tepui

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jüü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hü:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “hɨ̄”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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