woowanomatojo

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV woowanomatojo
Brazilian standard woowanoomatoofo
New Tribes woowanoomatoojo

Etymology

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From w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ oowanoma (to learn) +‎ -tojo (instrumental nominalizer).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [βoːwanoːmatoːhʷo]

Noun

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woowanomatojo (possessed woowanomatojo)

  1. school

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wo:wanomatoho”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wōwanomatoho”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021