sedenamjü

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV sedenamjü
Brazilian standard sedeenamjö
New Tribes sedeenamjö

Etymology

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Suffixed with -nöjü (causative suffix). Presumably the preceding -na must be a suffix forming an intransitive patientive verb from a noun, as the constructions of the related words seedeta and ssedeje show that the root is a nominal stem.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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sedenamjü

  1. (transitive) to dry
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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sedenamjü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon