önna

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See also: onna and önña

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV önna
Brazilian standard änna
New Tribes änna

Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *ôwna (nose).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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önna (possessed önnadü or ennadü)

  1. nose

References

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  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “änna”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “önna”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 288
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ənna”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021