Yon — all the way through

Shipibo builds meaning by stacking suffixes onto roots like puzzle pieces — the teachers called them special effects. The first and most felt: -yon-, meaning all the way through, to the max. It always sits in the middle of the verb — root before it, more suffixes after. Kanoyontaana: connected — fully. Not halfway, not almost. No corner left out.

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