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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Possibly from öt- (intransitivizer) + enwa (“to make dance”), although *ötönwa would be the expected form.
Pronunciation
Verb
önwa
- (intransitive, agentive) to dance
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önwa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ännwatääkä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ənwa-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021