ekanta'ñö
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- etanta'ñö (Ye'kwana)
Etymology
From Spanish cantar + -'ñö (loanword verbalizer).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ekantaʔɲə]
Verb
ekanta'ñö
- (De'kwana dialect, intransitive, patientive) to sing
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “etanta'ñö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 150
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “wekanta:'ñönö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “wekantāʔɲənə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021