ku'jö

Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
Bolívar state ku'jö
Brazil ku'fä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ikutupô; compare Apalaí ikuhpo, Kari'na ikùpo, Trió ikutupë, Wayana ikutpë, Akawaio iku'pö, Macushi iku'pî, Pemon iku'pö.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kuʔhʷə]

Noun

ku'jö

  1. lake, pool

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