tawane
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Ye'kwana[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- ta'wane (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology[edit]
Apparently from t- -e (adverbializer) + awaana (“to dawn”), although the final vowel in such a construction would be expected to be *a rather than *e.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
tawane
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tawane”, 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 301
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “taʔwane”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021