anwaaka

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	anwaaka
Brazilian standard	anwaaka
New Tribes	anwaaca

Alternative forms

• anwaka, anwa'ka (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

Formed from an element *anwa + the postpositionalizing suffix -ka (“to, at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aŋwaːka]

Postposition

anwaaka (Caura 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) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 222, 386: “[aŋwaka] ~ [aŋwaqa] 'in, inside' […] anwaka - into, in”
• 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