önökü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	önökü
Brazilian standard	änääkö
New Tribes	änääcö

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *onôkɨ (“who?”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ənəːkɨ]

Pronoun

önökü

1. (interrogative) who?

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önökü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “änääkö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 222, 283, 397: “[ënẹ̈:kï] ~ [ënẹ̈qï] 'who' […] önö:kü 'who' […] önö:kü - who”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ənə̄kɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021