ajö'müi
Maquiritari
Etymology
From ajö (“arm”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ahəʔmɨj]
Noun
ajö'müi
- decorative armband tied tightly above the bicep
References
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 41
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “ahəʔmɨy”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “ajö'müi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University