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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From tunke (“nonorphan”) + -jünü (negative suffix), apparently with one more unidentified suffix in the middle.
Pronunciation
Noun
tunkemjünü
- orphan
References
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 399: “tunkemhünü - orphan”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “tunkemhɨnɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021