kömu
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Ye'kwana
[edit]ALIV | kömu |
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Brazilian standard | kämu |
New Tribes | cämu |
Alternative forms
[edit]- komu (Caura River dialect)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kömu (possessed kömudu)
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) oldest child (of a man), where ‘child’ has the scope of nne (sons, daughters, children of a brother or sister of the same sex, etc.)
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) son-in-law (of a man)
Usage notes
[edit]Reports vary on whether this term refers only to male oldest children or can be applied without regard to sex.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “komu, komudu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kön'kwö”, 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
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 67, 70, 75: “komuudu”