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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Formed from an element *anwa + the postpositionalizing suffix -ka (“to, at”).
Pronunciation
Postposition
anwaaka (Caura River dialect)
- in or at the crotch of
- in, among
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “anwaaka”, 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, pages 222, 386: “[aŋwaka] ~ [aŋwaqa] 'in, inside' […] anwaka - into, in”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “anwaʔka”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021