kömu

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See also: Komu, komu, and кому

Ye'kwana[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • komu (Caura River dialect)

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

kömu (possessed kömudu)

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) oldest child (of a man), where ‘child’ has the scope of nne (sons, daughters, children of a brother or sister of the same sex, etc.)
  2. (Cunucunuma River dialect) son-in-law (of a man)

Usage notes[edit]

Reports vary on whether this term refers only to male oldest children or can be applied without regard to sex.

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “komu, komudu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kön'kwö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-hannɨ-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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    Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 67, 70, 75