kümü'kö
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | kümü'kö |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | kömö'kä |
| New Tribes | cömö'cä |
Etymology
[edit]From kümü (“machete”) + -'kö (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kümü'kö (possessed kümüichö)
References
[edit]- 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, 222, 290, 311, 393: “[kïmï'kë] ~ [qïmï'që] 'knife' […] i-kü:müy'chö > *kyü:müy'chö > chü:müy'chö 'his knife' […] kümü'kö -kü:mü -i-chö 'knife' […] kümü - 'kö 'knife' (kümü 'machete') […] kümü'kö - knife”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “kɨmɨʔkə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021