Ye'kwana edit

Variant orthographies
ALIV weichakono
Brazilian standard weichakoono
New Tribes weichacoono

Etymology edit

Hall analyzes the final -no as a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

weichakono (possessed weichakono)

  1. friend, companion, partner
  2. brother, bro

References edit

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “weichakono”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “weichako:no”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “weičakōno”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Briceño, Luis García (2024) Walking with Jesus in indigenous Amazonia: for an anthropology of paths[3], London: London School of Economics and Political Science, page 88:Weichacoono