konojo

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *konopo; cognate to Apalaí konopo, Kari'na konopo, Trió konopo, Wayana kopë, Panare kano', Macushi kono', Pemon konok, Yao (South America) kenape.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [konoːhʷo]

Noun

konojo

  1. rain

References

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