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ooje

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Ye'kwana

More information ALIV, Brazilian standard ...

Alternative forms

  • jooje (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

Ultimately suffixed with -je (adverbializer).

Pronunciation

Adverb

ooje (Caura River dialect)

  1. much, a lot, many
  2. to a great extent, very

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ooje”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “ho:he”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 305
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “hōhe”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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