ööwanaka

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ööwanaka
Brazilian standard	ääwanaaka
New Tribes	ääwanaaca

Etymology

From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ ewanaka (“to save, to rescue”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əːwanaːka]

Verb

ööwanaka

1. (intransitive, agentive) to save oneself, to pull through

References

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