Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV ööwasinchö
Brazilian standard ääwasinchä
New Tribes ääwasinchä

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ ewansinchö (to feed).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ööwasinchö

  1. (Caura River dialect, intransitive, agentive) to eat

References

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