awonñö'ka

== Ye'kwana == === Etymology === From awo (“to swell”) +‎ -nñö'ka. For the final element compare aminñö'ka (“to kill”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [aβonɲəʔka] === 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[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021