jedü

See also: jedu, jědu, and je'dü

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms
  • je'dü (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pe (“forehead”) with the possessed suffix -dü.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [hʷeɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

jedü (obligatorily possessed; possessed jedü)

  1. face

Derived terms

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jedü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “he:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “heʔ-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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