wetuje

Ye'kwana

Etymology

Ultimately suffixed with -je (adverbializer).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [wetuːhʷe]

Adverb

wetuje

  1. being sleepy, tired

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wetuje”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎, Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 201, 246: “wetuuje”
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