awö

• IPA^(key): /ˈavɤ/

awö (mutated form nawö)

1. friend, companion

From Proto-Cariban *jawô. Synchronically as if suffixed with -wö (“at”). Compare Apalaí ao, Hixkaryana yawo, Macushi ya, and Waiwai yaw.

• IPA^(key): [awə]

awö

1. at, in, on; indicates a generic location at a non-aquatic object of class 1
2. (with clausal complement) when
3. (with clausal complement) where

A possessed noun that is the object of this postposition does not take the possessed suffix -dü. The postposition can thus combine with nouns referring to body parts and parts of objects to form more complex postpositions/relational nouns.

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 267–272
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 296