yanwa'kö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	yanwa'kö
Brazilian standard	yanwa'kä
New Tribes	yanwa'cä

Alternative forms

• dhanwa'kö, danwa'kö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From yanwaa (“man”) +‎ -'kö (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɟaŋwaʔkə]

Noun

yanwa'kö

1. (Caura River dialect) boy

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yanwa'kö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 110
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 311
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “danwa-ʔkə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 233–234: “dhanwacä”