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kone'da

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV kone'da
Brazilian standard kone'da
New Tribes cone'da

Etymology

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Compare Yao (South America) icone. Perhaps also compare koneka (to fix, solve, straighten out) +‎ -'da (negative adverbializer), although this does not seem to be the actual derivation of this word, since the word itself can be negated with a further -'da and a cognate of the stem is found in Yao.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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kone'da

  1. being bad, evil
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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kone'da”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 148, 443
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 221, 302, 392:[konẹ'da] ~ [qonẹ'da] 'bad, evil' [] kone'da, konemhünü 'bad, evil' [] kone'da - bad, evil
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kənemhɨnɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021