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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Perhaps from nono (“earth, soil”) + -joi (“via”) + -tö.
Pronunciation
Adverb
nonojoichö
- being low, short, tiny, close to the ground
References
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “*nonohoychöto > *nonohoytchöto > nonohoy'chöto 'below' nonoho'chö, nonoho'chöto 'low, short' nonohoi'chöto - low, tiny (close to the ground)”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 224, 302, 395
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “nonohoʔčə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021