anwa'ka

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• anwaaka (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

Formed from an element *anwV + the postposition a'ka (“at, in, on, to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aŋwaʔka]

Postposition

anwa'ka (Cunucunuma River dialect)

1. in or at the crotch of
2. in, among

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “anwaaka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “anwaka”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “anwaʔka”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021