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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Compare Wayana etnai, Akawaio a'nai, Macushi a'nai, Pemon anai.
Pronunciation
Noun
önña (possessed önñadü or enñadü)
- maize, Zea mays
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “anña, önña”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ännha”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “önña”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “ənɲa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 31: “öña”