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Awetí
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Drude suggests the n-less forms of this and other word-pairs are original, with the n- added by analogy to the third-person singular inalienable noun prefix.[1]
Noun
[edit]ypék
- (women's speech) duck (bird)
Synonyms
[edit]- nypék (men's speech)
References
[edit]- Michael Dunn, Gender determined dialect variation, in The Expression of Gender (edited by Greville G. Corbett)
- ^ Dunn, citing Drude (2002).