kümü'kö

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From kümü (“machete”) +‎ -'kö (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kɨmɨʔkə]

Noun

kümü'kö (possessed kümüichö)

  1. knife

References
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kümü'kö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 290, 311
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kɨmɨʔkə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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