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

Ye'kwana edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Particle edit

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 edit

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

Derived terms edit

References edit

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