waamonö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	waamonö
Brazilian standard	waamonä
New Tribes	waamonä

Etymology

From w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ aamo (“to cry”) +‎ -nö (infinitive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [waːmonə]

Noun

waamonö

1. tear, teardrop

   Synonym: önaku

Verb

waamonö

1. infinitive of aamo

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aamo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 401: “wa:munö - tear (of eye)”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-amo-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021