awonñö'ka

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From awo (“to swell”) +‎ -nñö'ka. For the final element compare aminñö'ka (“to kill”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [aβonɲəʔka]

Verb

awonñö'ka

  1. (intransitive) to swell up, to inflate

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