anwaaka

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV anwaaka
Brazilian standard anwaaka
New Tribes anwaaca

Alternative forms

  • anwaka, anwa'ka (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

Formed from an element *anwa + the postpositionalizing suffix -ka (“to, at”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [aŋwaːka]

Postposition

anwaaka (Caura River dialect)

  1. in or at the crotch of
  2. in, among

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “anwaaka”, 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, pages 222, 386: “[aŋwaka] ~ [aŋwaqa] 'in, inside' […] anwaka - into, in”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “anwaʔka”, 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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