ya'kwa

See also: yakwa-

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ya'kwa
Brazilian standard	ya'kwa
New Tribes	ya'cwa

Alternative forms

• ya'ka

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɟaʔkʷa]

Verb

ya'kwa

1. (transitive) to burn (something) with something hot, not necessarily fire

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ya'kwa”, 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 403: “ya:'kwadü - to burn”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “yaʔka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ukā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “Also -yaʔkwa-dɨ; both terms mean 'burn' in any context, with sense of being consumed by fire. Also yaʔka-dɨ, means 'burn' in the context of cleaning garden; may also be translated as 'to fell, cut down'. [Sic; this seems to be a mistaken conflation of this word with yaka.]”