entatü'

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV entatü'
Brazilian standard entatö'
New Tribes entatö'

Etymology

From e- (intransitivizer) +‎ ntatü' (“to wash (someone’s) mouth”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [entatɨʔ]

Verb

entatü'

  1. (intransitive, patientive) to wash one’s mouth

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “entatü'”, 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, pages 138, 322
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ičoʔka-dɨ”, 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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