na'kwawö
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Ye'kwana
[edit]ALIV | na'kwawö |
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Brazilian standard | na'kwawä |
New Tribes | na'cwawä |
Etymology
[edit]Likely from an irregular contraction of tuna (“water”) + kwawö (“at, in, on (a body of water)”). Compare na'kwaka.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]na'kwawö
References
[edit]- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 222, 395: “[nạ'kuawë] ~ [nạ'quawë] 'near the river' […] na'kwawö - near the river”