önna

See also: onna and önña

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	önna
Brazilian standard	änna
New Tribes	änna

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôwna (“nose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ənna]

Noun

önna (possessed önnadü or ennadü)

1. nose

References

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “änna”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 229, 288, 397: “önna 'nose' […] önna -enna -dü 'nose' […] önna - nose”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ənna”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021