nkawö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	nkawö
Brazilian standard	nkawä
New Tribes	ncawä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *mɨka (“back”) + -wö (“at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ŋkawə]

Postposition

nkawö

1. above, on top of

Noun

nkawö (possessed nkawö)

1. shoulder

Related terms

• nkaköi
• nkakökö
• nkayedö
• nkayekökö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “nkawö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 274–276
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 292
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “nkawə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021