tawata

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV tawata
Brazilian standard tawaata
New Tribes tawaata

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From tawa (lung) +‎ -ta (verbalizer).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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tawata

  1. (Caura River dialect, intransitive, patientive) to float

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tawata”, 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 400:tüta:wa'ta - to float in the river
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨtāwaʔta”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021