akono

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	akono
Brazilian standard	akoono
New Tribes	acoono

Etymology

Hall analyzes the final -no as a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [akoːno]

Noun

akono (possessed akono)

1. younger brother
2. younger male parallel cousin
3. (in relation to a woman) younger same-generation relative in general

Derived terms

• akono'kö

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “akono”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “akoono”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ayaakono”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[3], 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, page 291
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “šīʔčɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “Also yākōno, 'little brother'.”
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 68, 72–73: “yaakono […] yakono […] akoono”