etanta'ñö

== Ye'kwana == === Alternative forms === ekanta'ñö (Cunucunuma River dialect) === Etymology === From e- (intransitivizer) + Spanish cantar + -'ñö (loanword verbalizer). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [etantaʔɲə] === Verb === etanta'ñö (Caura River dialect, intransitive, patientive) to sing, particularly in a style derived from the western musical tradition rather than traditional chants === References === Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “etanta'ñö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon, page 150 Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 402: “wekanta:'ñönö - to sing” Hall, Katherine (2007), “wekantāʔɲənə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021 Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020), The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People‎[3], Tübingen: Universität Tübingen, page 84: “The Ye’kwana distinguish the act of singing a’chudi and ademi, from wekanta’hnänä [sic], a word derived from Spanish that denotes singing restricted to the western musical aesthetics.”