otoneja

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

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, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wötö:neja:nö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wətə̄nehānə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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