khóé

Khwe

Etymology

From Proto-Khoe *khóé. Cognate to ǁAni kʰóé.

Noun

khóé

1. person

Usage notes

This word is sometimes used (as a bare uninflected stem) as an honorific second-person pronoun in greetings.

Further reading

• Christa Kilian-Hatz, A grammar of modern Khwe (central Khoisan) (2008)