Ye'kwana

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Etymology

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From jonü (nephew) +‎ -'kö (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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jonü'kö

  1. (diminutive) nephew

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hö:nü'kö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “honɨ-kə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021