na'kwaka
Ye'kwana edit
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Etymology edit
Likely from an irregular contraction of tuna (“water”) + kwaka (“at, in, to (a body of water)”).
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na'kwaka
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References edit
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “nākukwāno”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “na'kwaka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[2], Lyon, page 270
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “na:'kuka / na:'kwakwa / na:'kukwa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 239, 269