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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *wô, *wônô (“to shoot, to kill”).
Pronunciation
Verb
üwö
- (transitive) to strike or kill (a hunted animal), to stab, to shoot
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “üwö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tüwö:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 315
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “t-ɨwə̄-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021