awonñö'ka
Ye'kwana edit
Etymology edit
From awo (“to swell”) + -nñö'ka. For the final element compare aminñö'ka (“to kill”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
awonñö'ka
- (intransitive) to swell up, to inflate
References edit
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “awonɲəʔkādɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “awonñö'ka:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University