jetü

See also: ĵetu

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *petɨ (“thigh”). Hall analyzes the final -tü as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷetɨ]

Noun

jetü (possessed jetü)

1. (Caura River dialect) thigh, leg

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jetü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 291, 390: “he:tü 'my foot' […] he:tü 'leg' […] he:tü - my leg”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “hētɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021