kawö
Ye'kwana edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cariban *kawô (“high”). Perhaps ultimately formed with the ancestor of awö (“at, in, on”); for the first element, perhaps compare kaju (“sky”).
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
kawö
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kawö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kawö:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 302
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “kawə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “kawə̄”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021