awonñö'ka

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	awonñö'ka
Brazilian standard	awonnhä'ka
New Tribes	awonñä'ca

Etymology

From awo (“to swell”) +‎ -nñö'ka. For the final element compare aminñö'ka (“to kill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aβonɲəʔka]

Verb

awonñö'ka

1. (intransitive) to swell up, to inflate

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 386: “awonñö'ka:dü - to inflate, swell up”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “awonɲəʔkādɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021