tadawaaju

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	tadawaaju
Brazilian standard	tadaawaaju
New Tribes	tadaawaaju

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish trabajo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [taɾ̠aːwaːhu]

Noun

tadawaaju (possessed tadawaajui)

1. work

Derived terms

• etadawa'kajo

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tadawaaju”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 113
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tadawa:hu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “tadawāhu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021