konkwö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	konkwö
Brazilian standard	konkwä
New Tribes	concwä

Alternative forms

• könkwö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From komu (“oldest child, son-in-law”) +‎ -'kö (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koŋkʷə]

Noun

konkwö

1. (Caura River dialect, diminutive) son-in-law of a man

References

• 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^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021