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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Likely from an irregular contraction of tuna (“water”) + kwaka (“at, in, to (a body of water)”). Compare na'kwawö.
Pronunciation
Adverb
na'kwaka
- in the water, in the river
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “na'kwaka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 270
- 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, 239, 269, 394:
na:ka'ka 'in the river' […] Both regressive and progressive reduplication occur in the lexical item in the following example which varies as progressive with the /u/ and regressive with the /a/: na:'kuka / na:'kwakwa / na:'kukwa 'in the river' […] na:'-ku-ka > na:'-ku-kwa 'in the river' […] na:'kuka - in the river
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “nākukwāno”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021