e'ji
Appearance
Ye'kwana
[edit]ALIV | e'ji |
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Brazilian standard | e'fi |
New Tribes | e'ji |
Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Proto-Cariban *pɨ (“to bathe”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]e'ji (intransitive, patientive)
References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “e'ji”, 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 400: “tüwö'hiyü - to swim, to bathe”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨwəʔhiyɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “Also hənɨn-nə; and tɨwəʔhiyɨ, with the sense of bathe, swim.”