ja'se

See also: jase, Jase, jasé, and jäse

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ja'se
Brazilian standard	fa'se
New Tribes	ja'se

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷaʔse]

Noun

ja'se (obligatorily possessed; possessed ja'se)

1. (in relation to a man) sister’s daughter, sororal niece
2. (in relation to a woman) brother’s daughter, fraternal niece
3. female parallel cousin’s daughter
   1. father’s brother’s daughter’s daughter
   2. mother’s sister’s daughter’s daughter
4. male cross-cousin’s daughter
   1. father’s sister’s son’s daughter
   2. mother’s brother’s son’s daughter
5. great-granddaughter
6. sibling’s great-granddaughter, great-grandniece

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ja'se”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 113
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 292
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “hāse”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 71, 75: “ja'se”