ö'ji

See also: oji, ōji, öji, and ɔji

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ö'ji
Brazilian standard	ä'fi
New Tribes	ä'ji

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôtipi (“lip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əʔhʷi]

Noun

ö'ji (obligatorily possessed; possessed ö'jiyü or e'jiyü)

1. lip, lips
2. edge, rim, lip, border
3. water’s edge, shore

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ö'ji”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 111
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ö:'hi, chö'hiyü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ə̄ʔhi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “čəʔhiyu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021