yə:yə

a word from vocabulary Oroqen by Fengxiang Li and Lindsay J. Whaley  
Word form yə:yə
LWT meaning(s)
Word meaning grandfather
Comments on word In the Heihe area and the central dialect, this borrowing from Chinese is used yə:yə, which means ‘grandfather on the father’s side’. The Chinese word is a compound derived from reduplication yéye 爺爺.
Analyzability unanalyzable
Age No information [20]