womü

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV womü
Brazilian standard womö
New Tribes womö

Pronunciation

Noun

womü (possessed womü)

  1. clothing, garments, dress

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “womü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 113
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 229, 292, 402:[womụ'] 'dress, outfit' [] wo:mü 'clothing' [] womü - clothes, dress, garmets
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “womɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021