kömu
Ye'kwana edit
Alternative forms edit
- komu (Caura River dialect)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kömu (possessed kömudu)
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) oldest child (of a man), where ‘child’ has the scope of nne (sons, daughters, children of a brother or sister of the same sex, etc.)
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) son-in-law (of a man)
Usage notes edit
Reports vary on whether this term refers only to male oldest children or can be applied without regard to sex.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “komu, komudu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kön'kwö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “-hannɨ-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- 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 67, 70, 75: “komuudu”