tawane

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV	tawane
Brazilian standard	tawaane
New Tribes	tawaane

Alternative forms

ta'wane (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

Apparently from t- -e (adverbializer) +‎ awaana (“to dawn”), although the final vowel in such a construction would be expected to be *a rather than *e.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [tawaːne]

Adverb

tawane

(Caura River dialect) being bright, shining, luminous

References

Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tawane”, 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, page 301
Hall, Katherine (2007) “taʔwane”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021