jaaja

See also: Jaaja

Fula

Noun

jaaja o (plural jaajiraaɓe ɓe)

1. (Pular) bigger sister

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	jaaja
Brazilian standard	faaja
New Tribes	jaaja

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): [hʷaːha]

Noun

jaaja

1. first-person possessed form of ümü

References

• 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”