ennaka

Northern Paiute

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in̥aka/

Noun

ennaka

  1. ear

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ennaka
Brazilian standard ennaka
New Tribes ennaca

Etymology

From e- (intransitivizer) +‎ nnaka (“to recover, to retrieve, to give back”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ennaka]

Verb

ennaka

  1. (intransitive, patientive) to return, to come back

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ennaka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 402: “wennaka:nö - to return, to come back”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-ennakā-nə”, 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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