owanökö

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV owanökö
Brazilian standard owaanäkä
New Tribes owaanäcä

Etymology

From owano (acquaintance) +‎ -kö (formative used in spatial postpositions such as o'kökö and dü'tökö).

Pronunciation

Postposition

owanökö

  1. familiar to, acquainted or known by

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “owanökö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 139, 447
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 219, 388:[ḍowa:nëkë] ~ [ðowa:nëkë] 'he knows' [] dowa:nökö - he knows
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “t-owanəkə t-ɨdɨ-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021