Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV konemjünü
Brazilian standard konemjönö
New Tribes conemjönö

Etymology

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Suffixed with -jünü (negative suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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konemjünü

  1. one who is bad or evil
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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “konemjünü”, 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 302, 392:kone'da, konemhünü 'bad, evil' [] konemhünü 'bad, problematic'
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kənemhɨnɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021