a'deukwe

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	a'deukwe
Brazilian standard	a'deukwe
New Tribes	a'deucwe

Etymology

Apparently from a'deuwü (“to talk”) +‎ -ke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aʔdewkʷe]

Noun

a'deukwe

1. language, speech

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 224, 385: “*a:dewkwe > * a:ddewkkwe > a:'dew'kwe 'speech' […] a:'deu'kue - language, idiom, speech”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “āʔdewʔkwe”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021