öömu'nojü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	öömu'nojü
Brazilian standard	äämu'nofö
New Tribes	äämu'nojö

Etymology

From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ emu'nojü (“to try to deceive or distract”). However, an agentive verb would be expected from this construction, whereas according to Cáceres this verb is patientive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əːmuʔnohʷɨ]

Verb

öömu'nojü

1. (intransitive, patientive) to get distracted

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öömu'nojü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 438, 449