wedenchö

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• widinchö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From *wedeimü +‎ -'kö; compare wedenmü.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [weɾ̠ent͡ʃə]

Noun

wedenchö (possessed wedenñü)

1. (Caura River dialect) smoke

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wedenchö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 114
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “widi:nchö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “widīnčə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021