na'kwawö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	na'kwawö
Brazilian standard	na'kwawä
New Tribes	na'cwawä

Etymology

Likely from an irregular contraction of tuna (“water”) +‎ kwawö (“at, in, on (a body of water)”). Compare na'kwaka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [naʔkʷawə]

Adverb

na'kwawö

1. at the water, at the river

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 222, 395: “[nạ'kuawë] ~ [nạ'quawë] 'near the river' […] na'kwawö - near the river”