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Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
| ALIV
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| Brazilian standard
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a'deeja
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| New Tribes
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Etymology
Ultimately derived from a'deu (“word”).
Pronunciation
Verb
a'deeja (transitive)
- to call, to call to, to summon
- to welcome, to greet
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “a'deeja”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, 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 385: “a:'deufa'to'me - to call”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔdewhaʔdɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021