ö'mu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ö'mu
Brazilian standard	ä'mu
New Tribes	ä'mu

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôtjôkumu (“knee”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əʔmu]

Noun

ö'mu (obligatorily possessed; possessed ö'mudu or e'mudu)

1. knee (of a human or animal)
2. elbow

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tö'muuye”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 112
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ä'mu”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ö:'mu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ə̄ʔmu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021