tawata

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	tawata
Brazilian standard	tawaata
New Tribes	tawaata

Alternative forms

• tawa'ta (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

Possibly suffixed with -ta (verbalizer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tawaːta]

Verb

tawata

1. (Caura River dialect, intransitive, patientive) to float

Related terms

• tawaje

References

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