önu

See also: onu, Oenu, ONU, and önü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	önu
Brazilian standard	änu
New Tribes	änu

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ônu (“eye”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ənu]

Noun

önu (obligatorily possessed; possessed önudu or enudu)

1. eye

Derived terms

• önaku
• önu akano ökato
• önu ekato

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “änu”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “önu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ənu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021