Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV kö'tünnö
Brazilian standard kä'tönnä
New Tribes cä'tönnä

Etymology

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From kö'tümü (to shout) +‎ -nö (infinitive suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kö'tünnö

  1. voice
  2. shout, cry

Verb

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kö'tünnö

  1. infinitive of kö'tümü

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 392:[kë'tïnnë] 'voice' [] kö'tünnö - voice
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kəʔtɨnnə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kəʔtɨn-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021