tadonñe

Ye'kwana

Etymology

Perhaps from t- -e (adverbializer) +‎ adoni (“revitalizer, health”) + a verbalizing suffix of some kind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [taɾ̠onɲe]

Adverb

tadonñe

1. being healthy, sound, well

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tadonñe wa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 302
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “tadəinɲe”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021