a'deukwe

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV a'deukwe
Brazilian standard a'deukwe
New Tribes a'deucwe

Etymology

Apparently from a'deuwü (“to talk”) +‎ -ke.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [aʔdewkʷe]

Noun

a'deukwe

  1. language, speech

References

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 224, 385: “*a:dewkwe > * a:ddewkkwe > a:'dew'kwe 'speech' […] a:'deu'kue - language, idiom, speech”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “āʔdewʔkwe”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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