tawaje

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV tawaje
Brazilian standard tawaaje
New Tribes tawaaje

Etymology

From tawa (“lung”) +‎ -je (adverbializer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tawaːhe]

Adverb

tawaje

  1. being light, of low weight
  2. being light, frivolous

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tawaje”, 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 217, 219, 399: “tawa:he 'light, frivolous' […] tawa:he - light, frivolous”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tawāhe”, 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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