emamü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	emamü
Brazilian standard	emaamö
New Tribes	emaamö

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [emaːmɨ]

Verb

emamü

1. (transitive) to paint

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “emamü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wema:n'a”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “wemānʔa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021