wedennö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wedennö
Brazilian standard	wedennä
New Tribes	wedennä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban [Term?]; compare Apalaí oruno, Kari'na werùnòpo, Trió wïrïnë, Wayana ëluwëtpë, Pemon weruna'pö.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [weɾ̠ennə]

Noun

wedennö

1. wood ashes

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wede:nnö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “wedēnnə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[2], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 178: “wedene”