jüü

See also: Juu, juu, and juú

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *wɨpɨ; compare Apalaí ypy, Kari'na wypy, Trió pïï, Wayana ïpï, Waiwai ïpï, Akawaio wï', Macushi wî', Pemon wük.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷɨː]

Noun

jüü (possessed jüüdü)

1. mountain, tepui

Derived terms

• Ye'kwana jüüdü

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jüü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hü:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “hɨ̄”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021