tawata
Ye'kwana edit
ALIV | tawata |
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Brazilian standard | tawaata |
New Tribes | tawaata |
Alternative forms edit
- tawa'ta (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology edit
Possibly suffixed with -ta (verbalizer).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
tawata
- (Caura River dialect, intransitive, patientive) to float
Related terms edit
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tawata”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tüta:wa'ta”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- 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