yaaya

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	yaaya
Brazilian standard	yaaya
New Tribes	yaaya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɟaːja]

Noun

yaaya (possessed yaaya)

1. older sibling; older sister or older brother
2. older parallel cousin
3. older same-generation relative in general

Derived terms

• yaaya'kö

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yaaya”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ya:ya”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “yāya”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 69, 72–73: “yaaya”