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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From anna (“central space”) + aka (“at, in, on, to”).
Pronunciation
Phrase
annaka
- (Caura River dialect and Brazil) in the central room of a village roundhouse, where unmarried men sleep and ritual activities take place
References
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “annaka”, 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, page 386: “anna'ka - (dining) room, main room”
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 22–26, 32, 34: “annaka”