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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Compare Yao (South America) icone. Perhaps also compare koneka (“to fix, solve, straighten out”) + -'da (negative adverbializer), although this does not seem to be the actual derivation of this word, since the word itself can be negated with a further -'da and a cognate of the stem is found in Yao.
Pronunciation
Adverb
kone'da
- being bad, evil
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kone'da”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 148, 443
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 221, 302, 392: “[konẹ'da] ~ [qonẹ'da] 'bad, evil' […] kone'da, konemhünü 'bad, evil' […] kone'da - bad, evil”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “kənemhɨnɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021