doqshi

Toba

Noun

doqshi

1. whites, white people, Europeans
   • 2001, Liliana Tamagno, “Nam Qum huetaá na doqshi lmá = los tobas en la casa del hombre blanco”, in The Toba in the house of the white man:
   • 2012, María Belén Carpio, Marisa Censabella, “Clauses as noun modifiers in Toba”, in Bernard Comrie, Zarina Estrada Fernández, editors, Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas, →ISBN:

     somaʒi y-iʔigena-ʔa-get na doqshi, yoqoʔoʒi
     3SG 3T-challenge-go-APPL:DIR DEM White People COORD
     w-añoʔ ka qo-y-ii-teg-a Charata
     3.go.DIR.APPL:LOC COMPL NP.PASS-3T-say-PROG-APPL:ALL Charata
     [ʒi-m w-etaʔh qoʔoʎoɢochiʒi somaʒi
     REL-TOP 3-go.CONT.APPL:ALL T.ADV 3SG
     na l-awoʔ]
     DEM 3POSS-people
     He went and challenged the White People, because he was (in the place) that had been called Charata, where were, in those days, his people.
     O. Sánchez; Nedec 6 - Petoxoi: 73

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