önwa

See also: onwa

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV önwa
Brazilian standard änwa
New Tribes änwa

Etymology

Possibly from öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ enwa (“to make dance”), although *ötönwa would be the expected form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [əŋwa]

Verb

önwa

  1. (intransitive, agentive) to dance

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önwa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ännwatääkä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ənwa-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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