a'seuwü

Ye'kwana

Etymology

Formed with the verbalizer -wü, though the unsuffixed form is unattested.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aʔsewwɨ]

Verb

a'seuwü

1. (intransitive, patientive) to laugh

References

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