wötönejanö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV wötönejanö
Brazilian standard wätäänejaanä
New Tribes wätäänejaanä

Etymology

From w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ ötöneja (“to fight, to test oneself”) +‎ -nö (infinitive suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [wətəːnehaːnə]

Verb

wötönejanö

  1. infinitive of ötöneja

References

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wötö:neja:nö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wətə̄nehānə”, 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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