tawe'de

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV tawe'de
Brazilian standard tawe'de
New Tribes tawe'de

Etymology

Apparently from t- -e (adverbializer) +‎ awe'dö (“to reduce, to cut down”), although the final vowel in such a construction would be expected to be *ö rather than *e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [taweʔde]

Adverb

tawe'de

  1. being short
  2. being scanty
  3. being weak

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tawe'de”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tawedato”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 301
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tawedato”, 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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