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Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *ôwna(ta) (“nose”).
Pronunciation
Noun
anàta (possessed enàtary) (East Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela)
- nose
- extremity, end
- offshoot
References
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 227
- Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “enata”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 143; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes, Paris, 1956, page 141