önwa

See also: onwa

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	önwa
Brazilian standard	änwa
New Tribes	änwa

Etymology

Possibly from öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ enwa (“to make dance”), although *ötönwa would be the expected form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əŋwa]

Verb

önwa

1. (intransitive, agentive) to dance

Derived terms

• wönwanö

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önwa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ənwa-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021