no'samo'kö

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Ye'kwana

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Etymology

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From no'samo (old woman) +‎ -'kö (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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no'samo'kö

  1. elder; mature or old woman

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “no'samo'kö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “noʔsamoʔkɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021