jümü

See also: jumu and jǔmù

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV jümü
Brazilian standard fömö
New Tribes jömö

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pɨmɨ (“neck”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hʷɨmɨ]

Noun

jümü (possessed jümüdü)

  1. neck

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “jümü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho; Silva, Marcelo Costa da; Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021), “fömö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “hü:mü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “hɨ̄mɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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