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entatü'. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From e- (intransitivizer) + ntatü' (“to wash (someone’s) mouth”).
Pronunciation
Verb
entatü'
- (intransitive, patientive) to wash one’s mouth
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “entatü'”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 138, 322
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ičoʔka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021