owanomanei

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV owanomanei
Brazilian standard owaanomaanei
New Tribes owaanomaanei

Alternative forms

Etymology

From owanoma (to teach) +‎ -nei (agent nominalizer).

Pronunciation

Noun

owanomanei

  1. (Caura River dialect) teacher

References

  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “yowānomani”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “owanomanei”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon