tawata

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV tawata
Brazilian standard tawaata
New Tribes tawaata

Alternative forms

Etymology

From tawa (“lung”) +‎ -ta (verbalizer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tawaːta]

Verb

tawata

  1. (Caura River dialect, intransitive, patientive) to float

References

  • 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
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