ajöi

See also: ajoi

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ajöi
Brazilian standard	ajäi
New Tribes	ajäi

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *apôti (“to seize”). Compare also ajö (“arm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ahəj]

Verb

ajöi (transitive)

1. to grasp, to grab
2. to record (someone’s words, etc.)

Derived terms

• aajöi
• ajoichojo
• ajoijö
• atajöi

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ajöi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ahəi-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021