de'wö

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV de'wö
Brazilian standard de'wä
New Tribes de'wä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *retɨ (top) + -wö (at).

Pronunciation

Postposition

de'wö

  1. upon, on

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “de'wö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 296