öwanü

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôwanô (“heart, chest”). Hall analyzes the final -nü as a fossilized derivational suffix.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [əwaːnɨ]

Noun

öwanü (possessed öwanü or ewanü)

  1. heart

Derived terms

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öwanü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “yēwanɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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