tü'tajö'nö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɨʔtahəʔnə]

Noun

tü'tajö'nö

1. thought

Verb

tü'tajö'nö

1. infinitive of tü'tajötü

References

• 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”