ekanta'ñö

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

Etymology

From e- (intransitivizer) + Spanish cantar + -'ñö (loanword verbalizer).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ekantaʔɲə]

Verb

ekanta'ñö

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect, intransitive, patientive) to sing

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “etanta'ñö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 150
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wekanta:'ñönö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wekantāʔɲənə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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