wötönejanö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wötönejanö
Brazilian standard	wätäänejaanä
New Tribes	wätäänejaanä

Etymology

From w- (intransitive prefix) +‎ ötöneja (“to fight, to test oneself”) +‎ -nö (infinitive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wətəːnehaːnə]

Verb

wötönejanö

1. infinitive of ötöneja

References

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