sa'dada

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	sa'dada
Brazilian standard	sa'dada
New Tribes	sa'dada

Alternative forms

• sa'da'da (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

Cognate to Hixkaryana sakarara, ultimately from a derivation of Proto-Cariban *tjakaw (“sand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [saʔdaɾ̠a]

Noun

sa'dada

1. (Caura River dialect) sand

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sa'dada”, 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 228, 397: “sa:'da'da 'sand' […] sa:'da'da - sand”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “sāʔdaʔda”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021