önu

See also: onu, Oenu, ONU, and önü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV önu
Brazilian standard änu
New Tribes änu

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ônu (“eye”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ənu]

Noun

önu (obligatorily possessed; possessed önudu or enudu)

  1. eye

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “änu”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “önu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ənu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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