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ennaka

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Northern Paiute

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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ennaka

  1. ear

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV ennaka
Brazilian standard ennaka
New Tribes ennaca

Etymology

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From e- (intransitivizer) +‎ nnaka (to recover, to retrieve, to give back).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ennaka

  1. (intransitive, patientive) to return, to come back

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ennaka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 402:wennaka:nö - to return, to come back
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-ennakā-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021