weena'ta

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV weena'ta
Brazilian standard weena'ta
New Tribes weena'ta

Etymology

From wenadu (“vomit”) +‎ -ta (verbalizer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [weːnaʔta]

Verb

weena'ta

  1. (intransitive, patientive) to vomit

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “weena'ta”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wena'tahö'e'nö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wenaʔtahəʔeʔnə”, 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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