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awa'de

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV awa'de
Brazilian standard awa'de
New Tribes awa'de

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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awa'de

  1. being first, before anything else
  2. being first, at the front (of a line), at the bow (of a boat), foremost
  3. being the preceding instance, last, this past

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “awa'de”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “awa'deeto”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 386:awa:'de - before, first
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “awaʔde”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021