amö

See also: amo, AMO, Amo, amó, amò, amô, ãmo, amọ, amɔ, Amo., -amo, amo-, amo', and амо

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	amö
Brazilian standard	amä
New Tribes	amä

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [amə]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Cariban *amo.

Alternative forms

• amo (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Noun

amö (possessed amödü)

1. (Caura River dialect and Brazil) hand

Derived terms

• aakö amojato
• aaköiche'a amojato
• aduwaawö amojato
• amojadö
• amökötö
• tooni amojato

 

Etymology 2

Verb

amö

1. (transitive) to build, to construct

Derived terms

• aamö
• amö'jüdü

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “amö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “amä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 221, 229, 386: “yamo:dü which means 'my hand' in the dialect of the present study […] [amọ] 'hand' […] amo - hand”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “amō-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021