tunkemjünü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV tunkemjünü
Brazilian standard tunkemjönö
New Tribes tunquemjönö

Etymology

From tunke (“nonorphan”) +‎ -jünü (negative suffix), apparently with one more unidentified suffix in the middle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tuŋkemm̥ɨnɨ]

Noun

tunkemjünü

  1. orphan

References

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 399: “tunkemhünü - orphan”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tunkemhɨnɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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