eduwa

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	eduwa
Brazilian standard	eduuwa
New Tribes	eduuwa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eɾ̠uːwa]

Adverb

eduwa

1. today
2. just now, recently
3. being new

Usage notes

When the meaning is ‘today’, this adverb is incompatible with the distant past tense and must be used with verbs in the recent past tense. However, when the meaning is ‘now, recently’, either tense can be used depending on the context.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “eduwa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 220
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “edu:wa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 302
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “edūwa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021