wüüwü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wüüwü
Brazilian standard	wööwö
New Tribes	wööwö

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *wɨwɨ; compare Apalaí wywy, Kari'na wywy, Trió wïwï, Wayana wïwï, Yao (South America) oüoe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wɨːwɨ]

Noun

wüüwü

1. axe

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wüüwü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wü:wü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “wɨ̄wɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021