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Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
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| Brazilian standard
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| New Tribes
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Etymology
Probably derived from or of the same origin as insho (“many, much, a lot”).
Pronunciation
Noun
inchomo (possessed ntomodü)
- elder; mature or old man
Derived terms
Adverb
inchomo
- many, much, a lot
- Synonym: insho
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “inchomo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 170, 300, 361, 440
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 224, 391: “*inchonkomo > *inchonkkomo > inchon'komo 'the old ones; very great' […] inchomo - old one”
- Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela, Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 226, 245: “inchomo”
- Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, pages 294–295: “inchomo”