tawe'de

Ye'kwana

Etymology

Apparently from t- -e (adverbializer) +‎ awe'dö (“to reduce, to cut down”), although the final vowel in such a construction would be expected to be *ö rather than *e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [taweʔde]

Adverb

tawe'de

1. being short
2. being scanty
3. being weak

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tawe'de”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tawedato”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 301
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “tawedato”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021