kawö

See also: kawo and kāwo

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *kawô (high). Perhaps ultimately formed with the ancestor of awö (at, in, on); for the first element, perhaps compare kaju (sky).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kawə]

Adverb

kawö

  1. being high up, above

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kawö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kawö:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 302
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kawə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kawə̄”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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