i'jotü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	i'jotü
Brazilian standard	i'jhotö
New Tribes	i'jotö

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tipotɨ (“hair”), with epenthetic initial i- after syllable reduction. Hall analyzes the final -tü as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iʔçotɨ]

Noun

i'jotü (possessed 'jotü)

1. feathers, hair, hide (of humans or animals)

Derived terms

• aya'ta'jotü

References

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “i'jhotö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 291, 391: “ü'ho:'tü 'hide, feathers' […] i'ho'tü - feathers, hair”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “iʔhōʔtɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021