ünükü

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *wônɨkɨ (“to sleep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɨnɨːkɨ]

Verb

ünükü

1. (intransitive, patientive) to sleep

Derived terms

• nünnöjü

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ünükü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wü:nkünö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-ɨnɨʔ-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021