adhawaanai

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	adhawaanai
Brazilian standard	adhaawaanai
New Tribes	adhaawaanai

Etymology

From ö- (second-person prefix) +‎ awaana (“to get up, to dawn”) +‎ -i (recent past perfective suffix), literally “you got up”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aðaːwaːnaj]

Interjection

adhawaanai

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) a morning greeting

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 218: “[adawa:nai] ~ [aðawa:nai] 'Did you get up alright [sic]?' (morning greeting)”