kwai
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]kwai (plural kwai)
- Alternative form of kuai (“yuan, Chinese currency”)
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Hadza
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kwai m (masc. plural kwaibii, fem. kwaiko, fem. plural kwaibee) (Note: the form after a determiner is kwai)
Related terms
[edit]Wala
[edit]Noun
[edit]kwai
Further reading
[edit]- Jesse Lovegren, Alice Mitchell, and Natsuko Nakagawa, The Wala language of Malaita, Solomon Islands (2015)
Ye'kwana
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- chai (allomorph after i)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Cariban [Term?]. Compare Apalaí kuae, Hixkaryana kwaye, Macushi kapai, and Waiwai kway.
Pronunciation
[edit]Postposition
[edit]kwai
Usage notes
[edit]This postposition cannot take person markers to indicate its object.
See also
[edit]Ye'kwana primitive postpositions
References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 267–272
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English indeclinable nouns
- Hadza terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hadza lemmas
- Hadza nouns
- Hadza masculine nouns
- hts:Mammals
- Wala lemmas
- Wala nouns
- Ye'kwana terms inherited from Proto-Cariban
- Ye'kwana terms derived from Proto-Cariban
- Ye'kwana terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ye'kwana lemmas
- Ye'kwana postpositions