enku'tö

See also: enkutö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV enku'tö
Brazilian standard enku'tä
New Tribes encu'tä

Alternative forms

Etymology

Likely suffixed with -tö (benefactive verbalizer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [eŋkuʔtə]

Verb

enku'tö

  1. (Caura River dialect, transitive) to tell (a lie), to lie

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “enku'tö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-enkutə-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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