tawata
Ye'kwana
editALIV | tawata |
---|---|
Brazilian standard | tawaata |
New Tribes | tawaata |
Alternative forms
edit- tawa'ta (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology
editFrom tawa (“lung”) + -ta (verbalizer).
Pronunciation
editVerb
edittawata
- (Caura River dialect, intransitive, patientive) to float
References
edit- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tawata”, 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, page 400: “tüta:wa'ta - to float in the river”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨtāwaʔta”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021