öwanü
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Ye'kwana[edit]
| ALIV | öwanü |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | äwaanö |
| New Tribes | äwaanö |
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Cariban *ôwanô (“heart, chest”). Hall analyzes the final -nü as a fossilized derivational suffix.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
öwanü (possessed öwanü or ewanü)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öwanü”, 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 291
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “yēwanɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021