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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Likely from an irregular contraction of tuna (“water”) + kwawö (“at, in, on (a body of water)”). Compare na'kwaka.
Pronunciation
Adverb
na'kwawö
- at the water, at the river
References
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 222, 395: “[nạ'kuawë] ~ [nạ'quawë] 'near the river' […] na'kwawö - near the river”