wa'sennö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wa'sennö
Brazilian standard	wa'sennä
New Tribes	wa'sennä

Etymology

From w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ a'seuwü (“to laugh”) +‎ -nö (infinitive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [waʔsennə]

Verb

wa'sennö

1. infinitive of a'seuwü

References

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