waamonö

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Variant orthographies
ALIV waamonö
Brazilian standard waamonä
New Tribes waamonä

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

waamonö

  1. tear, teardrop

Verb[edit]

waamonö

  1. infinitive of aamo

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aamo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wa:munö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • 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