yaaya
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɟaːja]
Noun
yaaya (possessed yaaya)
- older sibling; older sister or older brother
- older parallel cousin
- older same-generation relative in general
Derived terms
- yaaya'kö
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “yaaya”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “ya:ya”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “yāya”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 62–65, 69, 72–73