enku'tö

See also: enkutö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	enku'tö
Brazilian standard	enku'tä
New Tribes	encu'tä

Alternative forms

• enkutö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

Likely suffixed with -tö (benefactive verbalizer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eŋkuʔtə]

Verb

enku'tö

1. (Caura River dialect, transitive) to tell (a lie), to lie

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “enku'tö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “-enkutə-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021