Where does “na'kwakano” come from?

na'kwakano (Maquiritari) comes from Ye'kwana -anö, from Maquiritari -nö — Nominalizer for intransitive verbs that have no...

na'kwakano (Maquiritari): fish, when in the water

Definitions

  1. fish, when in the water

Ancestry of “na'kwakano”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ye'kwana-anöForms nouns from many postpositions and some (chiefly spatial) adverbs, typically with the sense of ‘one that (is (at)) …’, ‘one that has the quality of …’
2Maquiritari-nöNominalizer for intransitive verbs that have no...
Every word from Maquiritari -nö →Every word from Ye'kwana -anö →
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