danwa'kö
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- (Ye'kwana) yanwa'kö
Etymology
From danwa (“man”) + -'kö (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [daŋwaʔkə]
Noun
danwa'kö
- (De'kwana dialect) boy
References
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “danwa-ʔkə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “yanwa'kö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 110
- Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 233–234