wawonö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wawonö
Brazilian standard	wawoonä
New Tribes	wawoonä

Etymology

From w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ awo (“to swell”) +‎ -nö (infinitive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [waβoːnə]

Noun

wawonö

1. swelling

Verb

wawonö

1. infinitive of awo

References

• Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-awō-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021