tawaje

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	tawaje
Brazilian standard	tawaaje
New Tribes	tawaaje

Etymology

From tawa (“lung”) +‎ -je (adverbializer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tawaːhe]

Adverb

tawaje

1. being light, of low weight
2. being light, frivolous

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tawaje”, 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, 399: “tawa:he 'light, frivolous' […] tawa:he - light, frivolous”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “tawāhe”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021