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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From w- (intransitive prefix) + ötöneja (“to fight, to test oneself”) + -nö (infinitive suffix).
Pronunciation
Verb
wötönejanö
- infinitive of ötöneja
References
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wötö:neja:nö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “wətə̄nehānə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021