tö'ju

See also: toju, töju, tọju, and tɔju

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	tö'ju
Brazilian standard	tä'fu
New Tribes	tä'ju

Alternative forms

• töju (Caura River dialect)
• toju, taju (Tada'kwanña)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tôpu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [təʔhʷu]

Noun

tö'ju

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) stone, rock

Derived terms

• taju'kadai
• töju'kö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “töju, taju, toju”, 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 216, 399: “[të'hu] 'stone' […] tö'hu - rock”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “təʔhu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021