Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV tü'tajö'nö
Brazilian standard tö'tajä'nä
New Tribes tö'tajä'nä

Etymology

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From tü'tajötü (to think) +‎ -nö (infinitive suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tü'tajö'nö

  1. thought

Verb

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tü'tajö'nö

  1. infinitive of tü'tajötü

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tü:'tajö:'nö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨtahə-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 215, 227:tötajänä