owanökö

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

• IPA^(key): [owaːnəkə]

Postposition

owanökö

1. familiar to, acquainted or known by

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “owanökö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], 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^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021