ewontö

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV ewontö
Brazilian standard ewontä
New Tribes ewontä

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Verb

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ewontö

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

Etymology 2

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Verb

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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
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References

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  • 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