etanta'ñö

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• ekanta'ñö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [etantaʔɲə]

Verb

etanta'ñö

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

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “etanta'ñö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], 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^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021