owanomanei

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	owanomanei
Brazilian standard	owaanomaanei
New Tribes	owaanomaanei

Alternative forms

• yowanomani (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From owanoma (“to teach”) +‎ -nei (agent nominalizer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [owaːnomaːnej]

Noun

owanomanei

1. (Caura River dialect) teacher

References

• Hall, Katherine (2007) “yowānomani”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “owanomanei”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon