ö'sa
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "osa"
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | ö'sa |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | ä'sa |
| New Tribes | ä'sa |
| historical ad hoc | asa |
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ö'sa (possessed ö'sadü or e'sadü)
- the circular outer area of a village roundhouse (öttö), divided into rooms or compartments that each house an individual extended family
- room of a building
- (in modern, more dispersed villages) house, home, or the collection of houses surrounding the öttö
References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ö'sa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 289, 397: “[ë'sa] 'room' […] ö'sa 'room, salon' […] ö'sa 'room' […] ö'sa -e:'sa -dü 'room' […] ö'sa - room, assembly room ¶ ö'saka - to the house, at the house”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “əʔsa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 25–26, 32: “asa”
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 49–50: “ösa”