kwai
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
kwai (plural kwai)
- Alternative form of kuai (“yuan, Chinese currency”)
Anagrams[edit]
Hadza[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kwai m (masc. plural kwaibii, fem. kwaiko, fem. plural kwaibee) (Note: the form after a determiner is kwai)
Related terms[edit]
Wala[edit]
Noun[edit]
kwai
Further reading[edit]
- Jesse Lovegren, Alice Mitchell, and Natsuko Nakagawa, The Wala language of Malaita, Solomon Islands (2015)
Ye'kwana[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- chai (allomorph after i)
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Cariban [Term?]. Compare Apalaí kuae, Hixkaryana kwaye, Macushi kapai, and Waiwai kway.
Pronunciation[edit]
Postposition[edit]
kwai
Usage notes[edit]
This postposition cannot take person markers to indicate its object.
See also[edit]
Ye'kwana primitive postpositions
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 267–272
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English indeclinable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- Hadza terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hadza lemmas
- Hadza nouns
- Hadza masculine nouns
- hts:Mammals
- Wala lemmas
- Wala nouns
- Ye'kwana terms inherited from Proto-Cariban
- Ye'kwana terms derived from Proto-Cariban
- Ye'kwana terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ye'kwana lemmas
- Ye'kwana postpositions