önña

See also: onna, and önna

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	önña
Brazilian standard	ännha
New Tribes	änña

Alternative forms

• anña

Etymology

Compare Wayana etnai, Akawaio a'nai, Macushi a'nai, Pemon anai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ənɲa]

Noun

önña (possessed önñadü or enñadü)

1. maize, Zea mays

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “anña, önña”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ännha”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “önña”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ənɲa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 31: “öña”