wüüwü

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Variant orthographies
Bolívar state wüüwü
Brazil wööwö

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Cariban *wɨwɨ; compare Apalaí wywy, Kari'na wywy, Trió wïwï, Wayana wïwï, Yao (South America) oüoe.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

wüüwü

  1. axe

References[edit]

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