kudata

Swahili

Pronunciation

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Verb

kudata (verbal noun of the ku class)

1. infinitive of -data

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kudata
Brazilian standard	kudaata
New Tribes	cudaata
historical ad hoc	kurata

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuɾ̠aːta]

Noun

kudata (obligatorily possessed; possessed kudatai)

1. a kind of reed, Iriartella setigera, used to make the inner part of a blowgun
2. blowgun

Derived terms

• Kudatanña

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kudata”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 219, 222, 290, 392: “[kuda:ta] 'blowgun' […] [ku:datai] 'my blowgun' […] [kuda'ta] 'blowgun' […] i-kuda'tay' > *kyuda'tay' > chuda'tay' 'his blowgun' […] ----- -kuda:'ta -i 'blow gun' […] kuda:ta - blow gun”
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 117: “kurata”
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 223: “cudata”