awonñö'ka
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| ALIV | awonñö'ka |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | awonnhä'ka |
| New Tribes | awonñä'ca |
Etymology
From awo (“to swell”) + -nñö'ka. For the final element compare aminñö'ka (“to kill”).
Pronunciation
Verb
awonñö'ka
- (intransitive) to swell up, to inflate
References
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 386: “awonñö'ka:dü - to inflate, swell up”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “awonɲəʔkādɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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