kömusa'kö

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• komuusa'kö (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

From kömu (“oldest child, son-in-law”). Suffixed with -'kö (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kəmuːsaʔkə]

Noun

kömusa'kö

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) son-in-law (of a woman)

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “komuusa'kö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kömusa'kö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “-hannɨ-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021