nkawö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV nkawö
Brazilian standard nkawä
New Tribes ncawä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *mɨka (“back”) + -wö (“at”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ŋkawə]

Postposition

nkawö

  1. above, on top of

Noun

nkawö (possessed nkawö)

  1. shoulder

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “nkawö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon, pages 274–276
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 292
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “nkawə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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