könkwö

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

Etymology

From kömu (“oldest child, son-in-law”) +‎ -'kö (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kəŋkʷə]

Noun

könkwö

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect, diminutive) son-in-law of a man

References
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kön'kwö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-hannɨ-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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