de'a

See also: dea, Dea, DEA, dèa, dea-, deá-, de-a, and deʼa

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	de'a
Brazilian standard	dea
New Tribes	dea

Alternative forms

• che'a, ne'a (allomorphs)
• dea, denña, dinña

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [deʔa]

Particle

de'a

1. still, too, even now
2. again, back, at the same time or place
3. right, exactly, at the very time or place
4. very self, own self (intensifier for preceding pronouns)
5. expresses complaint

Usage notes

The form che'a is used after i, while ne'a is used after nö or dü (triggering reduction of the preceding syllable). With these forms this particle and the word preceding may be written as a single word.

Derived terms

• aaköiche'a
• ijatode'a

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “denña, de'a”, 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, pages 219, 220, 388: “[dea'] 'the same' […] The phoneme /d/ also appears as the morphophonemic alternant /ch/ when the morpheme dea' 'the same' occurs following /i/ or /y/; likewise, 'da 'not' occurs as 'cha: dea' > *dyea' > chea' 'the same' […] dea - the same, again, the identical one”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “dea”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021