ökünü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ökünü
Brazilian standard	äköönö
New Tribes	äcöönö

Etymology

Hall analyzes the final -nü as a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əkɨːnɨ]

Noun

ökünü (obligatorily possessed; possessed ökünü or ekünü)

1. pet

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ökünü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 114
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “äköönö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291