ewontö

Ye'kwana

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

1. (transitive) to refuse to hand (something) over or surrender (something)
2. (transitive) 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.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ewontö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wewontönö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 138
• 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