adhawaanai

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV adhawaanai
Brazilian standard adhaawaanai
New Tribes adhaawaanai

Etymology

From ö- (second-person prefix) +‎ awaana (to get up, to dawn) +‎ -i (recent past perfective suffix), literally you got up.

Pronunciation

Interjection

adhawaanai

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) a morning greeting

References

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 218:[adawa:nai] ~ [aðawa:nai] 'Did you get up alright ?' (morning greeting)