kümü'kö

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From kümü (“machete”) +‎ -'kö (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɨmɨʔkə]

Noun

kümü'kö (possessed kümüichö)

1. knife

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kümü'kö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 290, 311
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “kɨmɨʔkə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021