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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From owano (“acquaintance”) + -kö (formative used in spatial postpositions such as o'kökö and dü'tökö).
Pronunciation
Postposition
owanökö
- 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