akoicha'jüdü

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV akoicha'jüdü
Brazilian standard akoicha'födö
New Tribes acoicha'jödö

Etymology

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From akoicha (to end, to kill) +‎ -'jüdü (nominalizer of completed action).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [akojt͡ʃaʔhʷɨɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

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akoicha'jüdü

  1. termination point, limit of something, top, tip

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 224, 386:*akoychahüdü > *akoytchahhüdü > akoy'cha'hüdü 'at the termination point' [] akoi'cha'hüdü - termination point, tip, top
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “akoiʔčaʔhɨdɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021