ewontö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ewontö
Brazilian standard ewontä
New Tribes ewontä

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [eβontə]

Etymology 1

From e- (intransitivizer) +‎ wontö (“to clothe”).

Verb

ewontö

  1. (intransitive, patientive) to put on clothes, to get dressed
    Synonym: ensöma'tö

Etymology 2

Verb

ewontö (transitive)

  1. to refuse to hand (something) over or surrender (something)
  2. to defend (someone or something) (+ -uwö: against, from)
    • 2008, speaker ‘Anl’ from Boca de Piña (ConvChur.016), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, page 144:
      Unwa kowontaato yadanawiuwö yeichü.
      She defends us there (in the city) from the way of being of the non-natives.
Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ewontö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 138, 402: “w-e-wo:ntö-nö ¶ to dress oneself […] wewontönö - to dress”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wewontənə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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