Ye'kwana

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Etymology

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From nono (earth, soil) +‎ -joi (via) +‎ -tö.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [nonoːhʷojt͡ʃə]

Adverb

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nonojoichö

  1. being low, short, tiny, close to the ground

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “nonohoi'chöto”, 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) “nonohoʔčə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021