waiñö'nö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	waiñö'nö
Brazilian standard	wainhä'nä
New Tribes	waiñä'nä

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wajɲəʔnə]

Noun

waiñö'nö (obligatorily possessed; possessed waiñö'nöi)

1. great-grandmother (of a woman)
2. (in relation to a woman) father’s sister, paternal aunt
3. (in relation to a woman) mother’s brother’s wife

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wanñö'nö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 115
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “waynñe'ney”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “waynɲeʔney”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 69, 73–74: “waiño'noi”