tunkemjünü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	tunkemjünü
Brazilian standard	tunkemjönö
New Tribes	tunquemjönö

Etymology

From tunke (“nonorphan”) +‎ -jünü (negative suffix), apparently with one more unidentified suffix in the middle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tuŋkemm̥ɨnɨ]

Noun

tunkemjünü

1. orphan

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 399: “tunkemhünü - orphan”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “tunkemhɨnɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021