kwai
English edit
Noun edit
kwai (plural kwai)
- Alternative form of kuai (“yuan, Chinese currency”)
Anagrams edit
Hadza edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kwai m (masc. plural kwaibii, fem. kwaiko, fem. plural kwaibee) (Note: the form after a determiner is kwai)
Related terms edit
Wala edit
Noun edit
kwai
Further reading edit
- Jesse Lovegren, Alice Mitchell, and Natsuko Nakagawa, The Wala language of Malaita, Solomon Islands (2015)
Ye'kwana edit
Alternative forms edit
- chai (allomorph after i)
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cariban [Term?]. Compare Apalaí kuae, Hixkaryana kwaye, Macushi kapai, and Waiwai kway.
Pronunciation edit
Postposition edit
kwai
Usage notes edit
This postposition cannot take person markers to indicate its object.
See also edit
Ye'kwana primitive postpositions
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 267–272