waamonö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV waamonö
Brazilian standard waamonä
New Tribes waamonä

Etymology

From w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ aamo (“to cry”) +‎ -nö (infinitive suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [waːmonə]

Noun

waamonö

  1. tear, teardrop
    Synonym: önaku

Verb

waamonö

  1. infinitive of aamo

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aamo”, 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, page 401: “wa:munö - tear (of eye)”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-amo-nə”, 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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