Ye'kwana

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *wônɨkɨ (to sleep).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ünükü

  1. (intransitive, patientive) to sleep

Derived terms

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References

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