Ye'kwana

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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  • 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