Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV aawüttüünaka
Brazilian standard aawöttöönaka
New Tribes aawöttöönaca

Etymology

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Perhaps prefixed with öt- (intransitivizer), although it is unclear if a transitive root *awüttüünaka exists.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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aawüttüünaka

  1. (intransitive, agentive) to flip upside down
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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aawüttüünaka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon