enejü

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [eneːhɨ]

Verb

enejü

(transitive) to bring

Usage notes

This verb takes an irregular suffix -ö that replaces its final vowel instead of the ordinary recent/distant past perfective suffix -i. Similarly, the plural form of the same suffix is -oto rather than -icho.

References

Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “enejü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 129, 215–216, 438
Hall, Katherine (2007) “-enehɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021