konkwö

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV konkwö
Brazilian standard konkwä
New Tribes concwä

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From komu (oldest child, son-in-law) +‎ -'kö (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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konkwö

  1. (Caura River dialect, diminutive) son-in-law of a man

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kön'kwö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-hannɨ-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021