de'wö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	de'wö
Brazilian standard	de'wä
New Tribes	de'wä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *retɨ (“top”) + -wö (“at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [deʔwə]

Postposition

de'wö

1. upon, on

Derived terms

• aaköiche'a sotto de'wö amojadö
• aakö sotto de'wö amojadö
• aduwaawö sotto de'wö amojadö
• amojadö de'wö aakö
• amojadö de'wö aaköiche'a
• amojadö de'wö aduwaawö
• amojadö de'wö ijatode'a
• amojadö de'wö tooni
• de'wonontö
• tooni sotto de'wö amojadö

 

Related terms

• de'köi
• de'kökö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “de'wö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 296