ennaka

Northern Paiute

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in̥aka/

Noun

ennaka

1. ear

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ennaka
Brazilian standard	ennaka
New Tribes	ennaca

Etymology

From e- (intransitivizer) +‎ nnaka (“to recover, to retrieve, to give back”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ennaka]

Verb

ennaka

1. (intransitive, patientive) to return, to come back

References

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