no'samo'kö

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From no'samo (“old woman”) +‎ -'kö (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [noʔsamoʔkə]

Noun

no'samo'kö

1. elder; mature or old woman

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “no'samo'kö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “noʔsamoʔkɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021