kawö

See also: kawo and kāwo

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *kawô (“high”). Perhaps ultimately formed with the ancestor of awö (“at, in, on”); for the first element, perhaps compare kaju (“sky”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kawə]

Adverb

kawö

1. being high up, above

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kawö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kawö:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 302
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “kawə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “kawə̄”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021