etanta'ñö

• ekanta'ñö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

From e- (intransitivizer) + Spanish cantar + -'ñö (loanword verbalizer).

• IPA^(key): [etantaʔɲə]

etanta'ñö

1. (Caura River dialect, intransitive, patientive) to sing, particularly in a style derived from the western musical tradition rather than traditional chants

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “etanta'ñö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 150
• 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: “wekanta:'ñönö - to sing”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “wekantāʔɲənə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People‎^[3], Tübingen: Universität Tübingen, page 84: “The Ye’kwana distinguish the act of singing a’chudi and ademi, from wekanta’hnänä [sic], a word derived from Spanish that denotes singing restricted to the western musical aesthetics.”