Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV emakudö
Brazilian standard emaakudä
New Tribes emaacudä

Etymology

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Perhaps prefixed with e- (intransitivizer), though no transitive verb *makudö seems to be attested.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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emakudö

  1. (intransitive, patientive) to rot, to spoil, to go to waste

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “emakudö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 438