Ye'kwana edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Spanish cantar + -'ñö (loanword verbalizer).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

etanta'ñö

  1. (Caura River dialect, intransitive, patientive) to sing

References edit

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “etanta'ñö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 150
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wekanta:'ñönö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wekantāʔɲənə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021