woowanomatojo

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	woowanomatojo
Brazilian standard	woowanoomatoofo
New Tribes	woowanoomatoojo

Etymology

From w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ oowanoma (“to learn”) +‎ -tojo (instrumental nominalizer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [βoːwanoːmatoːhʷo]

Noun

woowanomatojo (possessed woowanomatojo)

1. school

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wo:wanomatoho”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “wōwanomatoho”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021