öwanü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	öwanü
Brazilian standard	äwaanö
New Tribes	äwaanö

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôwanô (“heart, chest”). Hall analyzes the final -nü as a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əwaːnɨ]

Noun

öwanü (possessed öwanü or ewanü)

1. heart

Derived terms

• öwanü akano ökato

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öwanü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• 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
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “yēwanɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021