ööwasinchö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ööwasinchö
Brazilian standard	ääwasinchä
New Tribes	ääwasinchä

Alternative forms

• oowashinchö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ ewansinchö (“to feed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əːwasint͡ʃə]

Verb

ööwasinchö

1. (Caura River dialect, intransitive, agentive) to eat

References

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