na'kwakano

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Ye'kwana

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From na'kwaka (in the water) +‎ -ano (nominalizer).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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na'kwakano

  1. fish, when in the water

References

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  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “nākukwāno”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “na'kwakano”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[2], Lyon