Common Lexeme

nawynka

Keywords: age terms, people, social rank

Pronunciation (IPA): 'naw.əŋ.ga 
Part of Speech: term noun 
Class:  
Forms: nawynka 
Glosses: youth, teenager 

Description:

The term 'nawynka' is derived from the number ten, 'naw', and means literally something like ;one who is multiplied by ten'. It is genenrally only used as a noun. Idiomatically it means 'teenager' and is an almost perfect synonym in meaning and tone for 'welun', 'youth'. The difference would be that 'welun' is more likely to take an intrinsic gender prefix than nawynka. Refer to 'walun', attached, for more details.

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