önawö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	önawö
Brazilian standard	änaawä
New Tribes	änaawä

Etymology

Formed from an element *öna + the postpositionalizing suffix -wö (“at”); for the first element compare wena (“vagina”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ənaːwə]

Postposition

önawö

1. in the lap of

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önawö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 274