ypék

Awetí

Etymology

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.

Noun

ypék

1. (women's speech) duck (bird)

Synonyms

• nypék (men's speech)

References

• Michael Dunn, Gender determined dialect variation, in The Expression of Gender (edited by Greville G. Corbett)