jonü'kö

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From jonü (nephew) +‎ -'kö (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hʷonɨʔkə]

Noun

jonü'kö

  1. (diminutive) nephew

References

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hö:nü'kö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “honɨ-kə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021