önña

See also: onna and önna

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV önña
Brazilian standard ännha
New Tribes änña

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compare Wayana etnai, Akawaio a'nai, Macushi a'nai, Pemon anai.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ənɲa]

Noun

önña (possessed önñadü or enñadü)

  1. maize, Zea mays

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “anña, önña”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho; Silva, Marcelo Costa da; Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021), “ännha”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “önña”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “ənɲa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012), Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 31: “öña”
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