tawe'de

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV tawe'de
Brazilian standard tawe'de
New Tribes tawe'de

Etymology

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Apparently from t- -e (adverbializer) +‎ awe'dö (to reduce, to cut down), although the final vowel in such a construction would be expected to be rather than *e.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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tawe'de

  1. being short
  2. being scanty
  3. being weak

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tawe'de”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tawedato”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 301
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tawedato”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021