doqshi

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Toba

Noun

doqshi

  1. whites, white people, Europeans
    • 2001, Liliana Tamagno, “Nam Qum huetaá na doqshi lmá = los tobas en la casa del hombre blanco”, in The Toba in the house of the white man:
    • 2012, María Belén Carpio, Marisa Censabella, “Clauses as noun modifiers in Toba”, in Bernard Comrie, Zarina Estrada Fernández, editors, Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas, →ISBN:
      somaʒi y-iʔigena-ʔa-get na doqshi, yoqoʔoʒi
      3SG 3T-challenge-go-APPL:DIR DEM White People COORD
      w-añoʔ ka qo-y-ii-teg-a Charata
      3.go.DIR.APPL:LOC COMPL NP.PASS-3T-say-PROG-APPL:ALL Charata
      [ʒi-m w-etaʔh qoʔoʎoɢochiʒi somaʒi
      REL-TOP 3-go.CONT.APPL:ALL T.ADV 3SG
      na l-awoʔ]
      DEM 3POSS-people
      He went and challenged the White People, because he was (in the place) that had been called Charata, where were, in those days, his people.
      O. Sánchez; Nedec 6 - Petoxoi: 73
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