kone'da

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

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

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): [koneʔda]

Adverb

kone'da

1. being bad, evil

Related terms

• konemjünü
• kone'ma

 

References

• 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