entatü'

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	entatü'
Brazilian standard	entatö'
New Tribes	entatö'

Etymology

From e- (intransitivizer) +‎ ntatü' (“to wash (someone’s) mouth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [entatɨʔ]

Verb

entatü'

1. (intransitive, patientive) to wash one’s mouth

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “entatü'”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 138, 322
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ičoʔka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021