ooje

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ooje
Brazilian standard	oofe
New Tribes	ooje

Alternative forms

• jooje (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

Ultimately suffixed with -je (adverbializer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [oːhʷe]

Adverb

ooje (Caura River dialect)

1. much, a lot, many
2. to a great extent, very

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ooje”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ho:he”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 305
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “hōhe”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021