aichü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	aichü
Brazilian standard	aichö
New Tribes	aichö

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ajt͡ʃɨ]

Verb

aichü

1. (transitive) to insert (something) into a hole
2. (transitive) to plant (manioc)

Derived terms

• aichüjo
• naichüdü

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aichü”, 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, page 386: “ai'chüdü - to put a stick into a hole; to plant yuca”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “aiʔčɨdɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021