Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV wünü'nö
Brazilian standard wönö'nä
New Tribes wönö'nä

Etymology

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From w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ ünükü (to sleep) +‎ -nö (infinitive suffix).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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wünü'nö

  1. infinitive of ünükü

References

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  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-ɨnɨʔ-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021