See also: onna and önna

Ye'kwana edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Compare Wayana etnai, Akawaio a'nai, Macushi a'nai, Pemon anai.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

önña (possessed önñadü or enñadü)

  1. maize, Zea mays

References edit

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “anña, önña”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “önña”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ənɲa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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    Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 31