üwö

See also: uwo, UWO, and -uwö

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *wô, *wônô (“to shoot, to kill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɨwə]

Verb

üwö

1. (transitive) to strike or kill (a hunted animal), to stab, to shoot

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “üwö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tüwö:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 315
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “t-ɨwə̄-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021