wedenchö

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV wedenchö
Brazilian standard wedenchä
New Tribes wedenchä

Alternative forms

Etymology

From *wedeimü +‎ -'kö; compare wedenmü.

Pronunciation

Noun

wedenchö (possessed wedenñü)

  1. (Caura River dialect) smoke

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wedenchö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 114
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “widi:nchö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “widīnčə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021