nosaje

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV nosaje
Brazilian standard nosaaje
New Tribes nosaaje

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately suffixed with -je (adverbializer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [nosaːhe]

Adverb

nosaje

  1. (Caura River dialect) being dirty

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “nosaje”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “nossahe”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “nossahe”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021