janü

See also: janu, jānu, jāṇu, jañu, and Janů

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	janü
Brazilian standard	fanö
New Tribes	janö

Alternative forms

• jannü (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷanɨ]

Noun

janü (obligatorily possessed; possessed janüdü)

1. (Caura River dialect) son-in-law

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “janü”, 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, pages 219, 289: “ha:nü 'my male cousin' […] ----- -hannü -dü 'son-in-law'”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “-hannɨ-dɨ”, 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, 74–75: “jannüdü”