Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV jadankana
Brazilian standard fadankana
New Tribes jadancana

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish palangana.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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jadankana (possessed jadankanai)

  1. large metal bowl, vat, pot

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jadankana”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hadanka:na”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ədinɲə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021