nonojoichö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	nonojoichö
Brazilian standard	nonoofoichä
New Tribes	nonoojoichä

Etymology

Perhaps from nono (“earth, soil”) +‎ -joi (“via”) +‎ -tö.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nonoːhʷojt͡ʃə]

Adverb

nonojoichö

1. being low, short, tiny, close to the ground

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “*nonohoychöto > *nonohoytchöto > nonohoy'chöto 'below' […] nonoho'chö, nonoho'chöto 'low, short' […] nonohoi'chöto - low, tiny (close to the ground)”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 224, 302, 395
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “nonohoʔčə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021