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Ye'kwana
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Etymology
Apparently from t- -e (adverbializer) + awe'dö (“to reduce, to cut down”), although the final vowel in such a construction would be expected to be *ö rather than *e.
Pronunciation
Adverb
tawe'de
- being short
- being scanty
- being weak
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tawe'de”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tawedato”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 301
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “tawedato”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021