akono
Ye'kwana
editALIV | akono |
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Brazilian standard | akoono |
New Tribes | acoono |
Etymology
editHall analyzes the final -no as a fossilized derivational suffix.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editakono (possessed akono)
- younger brother
- younger male parallel cousin
- (in relation to a woman) younger same-generation relative in general
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “akono”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “akoono”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ayaakono”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[3], 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
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “šīʔčɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “Also yākōno, 'little brother'.”
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 68, 72–73: “yaakono […] yakono […] akoono”