atajjima
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Ye'kwana[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably from öt- (intransitivizer) + *ajjima (“to sit (someone) down”), although it is unclear whether the latter verb can be attested.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
atajjima
- (Cunucunuma River dialect, intransitive, agentive) to sit down
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “atajima”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “watahhima:nö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-atahhimā-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021