kawadimaka

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kawadimaka
Brazilian standard	kawaadimaaka
New Tribes	cawaadimaaca

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kawaːɾ̠imaːka]

Noun

kawadimaka (possessed kawadimakai)

1. sling for carrying a child or baby

References

• 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, 290, 392: “i-ka:wadimakay > *kya:wadimakay > cha:wadimakay 'sling for carrying child' […] kawadimaka -ka:wadimaka -i 'sling for carrying child' […] kawadima:ka - sling for carrying baby”