ju'jadü

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV ju'jadü
Brazilian standard fu'fadö
New Tribes ju'jadö

Etymology

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From ju'jö (head) +‎ adü (leaf), thus literally ‘leaves of the head’.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ju'jadü (possessed ju'jadü)

  1. hair of the head

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ju'jadü”, 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, page 289