tawata
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | tawata |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | tawaata |
| New Tribes | tawaata |
Alternative forms
[edit]- tawa'ta (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology
[edit]From tawa (“lung”) + -ta (verbalizer).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tawata
- (Caura River dialect, intransitive, patientive) to float
References
[edit]- 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