önwa
Appearance
See also: onwa
Ye'kwana
[edit]ALIV | önwa |
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Brazilian standard | änwa |
New Tribes | änwa |
Etymology
[edit]Possibly from öt- (intransitivizer) + enwa (“to make dance”), although *ötönwa would be the expected form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]önwa
- (intransitive, agentive) to dance
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “önwa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ännwatääkä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ənwa-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021