-ja'ma

See also: jama, Jama, JAMA, jáma, jämä, jamą, and јама

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	-ja'ma
Brazilian standard	-ja'ma
New Tribes	-ja'ma

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [-haʔma]

Suffix

-ja'ma

1. attaches to the imperative form of a verb to make it a command to do something properly or completely

Usage notes

This morpheme is properly a clitic rather than a suffix.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “⸗ja'ma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon