ntatü'
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Ye'kwana[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate to Kari'na yntaty (“to wash (someone’s) mouth”). By surface analysis, nta (“mouth”) + atü (“to wash”).
Verb[edit]
ntatü'
- (transitive) to wash (someone’s) mouth
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 138
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ičoʔka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021