öwanü

== Ye'kwana == === Etymology === From Proto-Cariban *ôwanô (“heart, chest”). Hall analyzes the final -nü as a fossilized derivational suffix. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [əwaːnɨ] === Noun === öwanü (possessed öwanü or ewanü) heart ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “öwanü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291 Hall, Katherine (2007), “yēwanɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021