otoneja

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	otoneja
Brazilian standard	otooneja
New Tribes	otooneja

Alternative forms

• ötöneja (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ oneja (“to test, to measure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [otoːneha]

Verb

otoneja (Caura River dialect, intransitive, agentive)

1. to struggle, to fight
2. to weigh oneself, test oneself, measure oneself

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “otoneja”, 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, page 402: “woto:neha:nö - to fight”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “wətə̄nehānə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021