Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV önawö
Brazilian standard änaawä
New Tribes änaawä

Etymology

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Formed from an element *öna + the postpositionalizing suffix -wö (at); for the first element compare wena (vagina).

Pronunciation

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Postposition

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önawö

  1. in the lap of

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önawö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 274