ya'kwa
See also: yakwa-
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | ya'kwa |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | ya'kwa |
| New Tribes | ya'cwa |
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ya'kwa
- (transitive) to burn (something) with something hot, not necessarily fire
References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ya'kwa”, 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 403: “ya:'kwadü - to burn”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “yaʔka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “ukā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “Also -yaʔkwa-dɨ; both terms mean 'burn' in any context, with sense of being consumed by fire. Also yaʔka-dɨ, means 'burn' in the context of cleaning garden; may also be translated as 'to fell, cut down'. [Sic; this seems to be a mistaken conflation of this word with yaka.]”