ya'kwa

See also: yakwa-

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ya'kwa
Brazilian standard ya'kwa
New Tribes ya'cwa

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɟaʔkʷa]

Verb

ya'kwa

  1. (transitive) to burn (something) with something hot, not necessarily fire

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ya'kwa”, 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 403: “ya:'kwadü - to burn”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “yaʔka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ukā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “Also -yaʔkwa-dɨ; both terms mean 'burn' in any context, with sense of being consumed by fire. Also yaʔka-dɨ, means 'burn' in the context of cleaning garden; may also be translated as 'to fell, cut down'. [Sic; this seems to be a mistaken conflation of this word with yaka.]”
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