enejü

Maquiritari

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [eneːhɨ]

Verb

enejü

  1. (transitive) to bring

Usage notes

This verb takes an irregular suffix -ö that replaces its final vowel instead of the ordinary recent/distant past perfective suffix -i. Similarly, the plural form of the same suffix is -oto rather than -icho.

References
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “-enehɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “enejü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 129, 215–216
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