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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From a verb stem affixed with w- (intransitive prefix) and -nö (infinitive suffix). The stem is said by Guss to be ultimately related to a'deu (“word”), but this does not seem morphologically justifiable.
Pronunciation
Noun
wötunnö (possessed wötunnöi)
- the mythology and stories of the Ye’kwana; the Ye’kwana oral tradition
- story, history, tale, myth
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wötunnö”, 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, page 311
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN, page vii, 2
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 1–3