saayu

Inupiaq

Alternative forms

• saigu (Malimiut)
• saiyu (North Slope)
• chaiyu (Qawiaraq)

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian чай (čaj).

Noun

saayu

1. tea (Bering Straits)

   Saayu imiqtuni naguuruq.

   Tea is good to drink.

Synonyms

• tii

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	saayu
Brazilian standard	saayu
New Tribes	saayu

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [saːju]

Noun

saayu (possessed saayui)

1. salt
2. broad wrist bracelet made of white beads

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “saayu”, 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, pages 226, 290, 398: “i-sa:yuy > *sya:yuy > sha:yuy 'his salt' […] sayu -sa:yu -i 'salt' […] sa:yu - salt”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “sayu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• 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: “saiyu”