ö'sa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "osa"

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ö'sa
Brazilian standard	ä'sa
New Tribes	ä'sa
historical ad hoc	asa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əʔsa]

Noun

ö'sa (possessed ö'sadü or e'sadü)

1. the circular outer area of a village roundhouse (öttö), divided into rooms or compartments that each house an individual extended family
2. room of a building
3. (in modern, more dispersed villages) house, home, or the collection of houses surrounding the öttö

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ö'sa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ö'sa, ö'saka”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “əʔsa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• 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 25–26, 32: “asa”
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 49–50: “ösa”