wentumje

Ye'kwana

Etymology

Ultimately suffixed with -je (adverbializer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wentumm̥e]

Adverb

wentumje

1. being sad, sorrowful
2. being poor

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wentumje”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 302
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “wentumhe”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021