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English
Noun
kwai (plural kwai)
- Alternative form of kuai (“yuan, Chinese currency”)
Anagrams
Hadza
Pronunciation
Noun
kwai m (masc. plural kwaibii, fem. kwaiko, fem. plural kwaibee) (Note: the form after a determiner is kwai)
- warthog
Related terms
Wala
Noun
kwai
- water
Further reading
- Jesse Lovegren, Alice Mitchell, and Natsuko Nakagawa, The Wala language of Malaita, Solomon Islands (2015)
Ye'kwana
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban . Compare Apalaí kuae, Hixkaryana kwaye, Macushi kapai, and Waiwai kway.
Pronunciation
Postposition
kwai
- through, by; indicates motion by way of an aquatic object
Usage notes
This postposition cannot take person markers to indicate its object.
See also
Ye'kwana primitive postpositions
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 267–272