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Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Adverb
öisha
- (interrogative) where? (asking about location or destination of movement; also used in predicates without a copula and with finite verbs without an auxiliary copula, unlike öichö)
- 2008, speaker ‘Anl’ from Boca de Piña (CtoWoshi.005), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, page 355:
¿Össa küntaakö tüwü?- Where was he going?
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “össha”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 266–267
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ässha”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 283, 397: “öisha 'where' […] öisha 'where' […] ö:isha - where”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “ə̄iša”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021