ewanaka

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV ewanaka
Brazilian standard ewaanaka
New Tribes ewaanaca

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ewanaka

  1. (transitive) to save, to rescue

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ewanaka”, 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, page 389:ewanaka:dü - to save
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ewanakādɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021