saayu

Inupiaq

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian чай (čaj).

Noun

saayu

  1. tea (Bering Straits)
    Saayu imiqtuni naguuruq.
    Tea is good to drink.

Synonyms

Maquiritari

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sal.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [saːju]

Noun

saayu

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

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “saayu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “sa:yu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “sayu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, 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
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