sedenamjü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	sedenamjü
Brazilian standard	sedeenamjö
New Tribes	sedeenamjö

Etymology

Suffixed with -nöjü (causative suffix). Presumably the preceding -na must be a suffix forming an intransitive patientive verb from a noun, as the constructions of the related words seedeta and ssedeje show that the root is a nominal stem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [seɾ̠eːnamm̥ɨ]

Verb

sedenamjü

1. (transitive) to dry

Related terms

• seedeta
• ssedeje

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sedenamjü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon