aamo

See also: -aamo and aamö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	aamo
Brazilian standard	aamo
New Tribes	aamo

Etymology

From öt- (intransitivizer) + the descendant of Proto-Cariban *amo (“to weep for”). Cognate to Kari'na otamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aːmo]

Verb

aamo

1. (intransitive, agentive) to cry, to weep

Derived terms

• waamonö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aamo”, 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 315, 401: “-amo- 'cry' […] wa:munö - tear (of eye)”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-amo-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021