a'seuwü

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV a'seuwü
Brazilian standard a'sewwö
New Tribes a'sewwö

Etymology

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Formed with the verbalizer -wü, though the unsuffixed form is unattested.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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a'seuwü

  1. (intransitive, patientive) to laugh

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “a'seuwü”, 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 226, 401:[wa'sennë] 'to laugh' [] wa'sennö - to laugh
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “waʔsenɲo”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021