ajö
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ajo"
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ajö
- Alternative spelling of adjö
Usage notes
[edit]Matches the common pronunciation when used as a (somewhat informal) goodbye.
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:ajö.
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | ajö |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | ajä |
| New Tribes | ajä |
Alternative forms
[edit]- a'jö (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Cariban *apô (“arm”); compare Apalaí apo, Kari'na apo, Trió apë, Wayana apë, Waiwai apo, Akawaio apö, Pemon apue, Yao (South America) iapelly.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ajö (obligatorily possessed; possessed ajödü) (Caura River dialect)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 111
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 220, 289, 385: “d - a:'hö:du > da:'hö:du 'his arm' […] ----- -a'hö: -dü 'arm' […] a'hö - arm”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔhə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021