weena'ta

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV weena'ta
Brazilian standard weena'ta
New Tribes weena'ta

Etymology

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From wenadu (vomit) +‎ -ta (verbalizer).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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weena'ta

  1. (intransitive, patientive) to vomit

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “weena'ta”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wena'tahö'e'nö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wenaʔtahəʔeʔnə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021