womü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV womü
Brazilian standard womö
New Tribes womö

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [βomɨ]

Noun

womü (possessed womü)

  1. clothing, garments, dress

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “womü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 113
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 229, 292, 402:[womụ'] 'dress, outfit' [] wo:mü 'clothing' [] womü - clothes, dress, garmets[sic]
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “womɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021