ejö
See also: ejo, ejò, ējo, ėjo, ẹjọ, and -ejo
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ehə]
Verb
ejö
- (intransitive, agentive) to come
Usage notes
This verb takes an irregular suffix -ö that replaces its final vowel instead of the ordinary recent/distant past perfective suffix -i. Similarly, the plural form of the same suffix is -oto rather than -icho.
The imperative form is also irregular: singular ö'kö'de, plural ö'tökö.
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ejö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 129, 215–216, 230–231
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “w-eʔ-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021