önaku

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV önaku
Brazilian standard änaaku
New Tribes änaacu

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ônaku; compare Kari'na anaku. Likely ultimately derived from Proto-Cariban *ônu (“eye”); synchronically as if derived from Ye'kwana önu (“eye”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ənaːku]

Noun

önaku

  1. tear, teardrop
    Synonym: waamonö

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önaku”, 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 222, 397: “[ëna:ku] ~ [ënaqu] 'teardrop' […] öna:ku - tears (water of the eyes)”
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.