kawö

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See also: kawo and kāwo

Ye'kwana

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *kawô (high). Perhaps ultimately formed with the ancestor of awö (at, in, on); for the first element, perhaps compare kaju (sky).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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kawö

  1. being high up, above

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kawö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kawö:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 302
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kawə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kawə̄”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021