ejema

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ejema
Brazilian standard ejeema
New Tribes ejeema

Etymology

From the root of töje (“precious, dear”) +‎ -ma (verbalizer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [eheːma]

Verb

ejema (transitive)

  1. to buy
  2. to pay

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ejema”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 389: “ehe:madü - buy, pay”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “ehēma-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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