uwempo

== Kari'na == === Etymology === From *uwe (“belly”) +‎ -mpo (devalued suffix). === Pronunciation === (Venezuela) IPA(key): [uwempo] (Suriname) IPA(key): [uwembo] === Noun === uwempo (possessed uwempory) belly, stomach bowels, stomach whirlpool, vortex part of a stool made in the form of animals === References === Courtz, Hendrik (2008), A Carib grammar and dictionary‎[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 418 Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931), “we”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 514; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎[2], Paris, 1956, page 503