tawane

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV tawane
Brazilian standard tawaane
New Tribes tawaane

Alternative forms

Etymology

Apparently from t- -e (adverbializer) +‎ awaana (“to dawn”), although the final vowel in such a construction would be expected to be *a rather than *e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tawaːne]

Adverb

tawane

  1. (Caura River dialect) being bright, shining, luminous

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tawane”, 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 301
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “taʔwane”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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