dhanñami

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	dhanñami
Brazilian standard	dhannhami
New Tribes	dhanñami

Alternative forms

• danñami (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ðanɲami]

Noun

dhanñami

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) nest, nesting place

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 221, 388: “Other words have evidence for only two dialect alternants (e.g., de:/ye: 'tree' or [danñami]/[ðanñami] 'nesting place'). It is possible that subsequent data will reveal a third variant in such cases. […] danñami - nest”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “danɲami”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021