atajima

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	atajima
Brazilian standard	ataajima
New Tribes	ataajima

Alternative forms

• atajjima (Cunucunuma River dialect)
• atajüma

Etymology

Probably from öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ *ajima (“to sit (someone) down”), although it is unclear whether the latter verb can be attested.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ataːhima]

Verb

atajima

1. (Caura River dialect, intransitive, agentive) to sit down

References

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