yowanomani
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- (Ye'kwana) owanomanei
Etymology
From y- + owanoma (“to teach”) + -nei (agent nominalizer).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɟowaːnomaːni]
Noun
yowanomani
- (De'kwana dialect) teacher
References
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “yowānomani”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “owanomanei”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon