öömu'nojü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV öömu'nojü
Brazilian standard äämu'nofö
New Tribes äämu'nojö

Etymology

From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ emu'nojü (“to try to deceive or distract”). However, an agentive verb would be expected from this construction, whereas according to Cáceres this verb is patientive.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [əːmuʔnohʷɨ]

Verb

öömu'nojü

  1. (intransitive, patientive) to get distracted

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öömu'nojü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon, pages 438, 449
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