jedü

See also: jedu, jědu, and je'dü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	jedü
Brazilian standard	fedö
New Tribes	jedö

Alternative forms

• je'dü (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pe (“forehead”) with the possessed suffix -dü.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷeɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

jedü (obligatorily possessed; possessed jedü)

1. face

Derived terms

• ijedü
• jedö
• mado jedü
• tuna jedü

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jedü”, 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 217, 289, 390: “he:dü 'my face' […] ----- -he' -dü 'face' […] he:dü - my face”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “heʔ-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021