Ye'kwana

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Etymology

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Ultimately suffixed with -je (adverbializer).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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wentumje

  1. being sad, sorrowful
  2. being poor

References

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  • 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