jaaja
See also: Jaaja
Fula
[edit]Noun
[edit]jaaja o (plural jaajiraaɓe ɓe)
References
[edit]- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | jaaja |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | faaja |
| New Tribes | jaaja |
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Cariban *papa, a nursery word in origin; compare Apalaí papa, Kari'na papa, Trió papa, Akawaio papa, Macushi papa, Pemon papa, Yao (South America) pape, as well as (from non-Cariban languages) Wayampi papa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jaaja
- first-person possessed form of ümü
References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jaaja”, 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: “ha:ha - papa”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “haha”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], 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, pages 62–65, 69, 73: “waja”