Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV adö
Brazilian standard adä
New Tribes adä

Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *arô (to take, to carry).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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adö

  1. (transitive) to carry, to take along

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “adö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “adäädö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 223, 315, 385:[nạdë'ha] ~ [nạdëhha] 'he orders him to carry' [] nadö'ha ~ nadöhha 'he orders him to carry it' [] -adö:- 'carry' [] adö:dü - to carry
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-adə̄-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021