ji'jö

See also: Jijo

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ji'jö
Brazilian standard	fi'jhä
New Tribes	ji'jä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pitupô. Hall analyzes the final -jö as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷiʔçə]

Noun

ji'jö (possessed ji'jö)

1. skin

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ji'jö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “äji'jhä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hi'hö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “hiʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021