na'kwaka

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

Etymology

Likely from an irregular contraction of tuna (“water”) +‎ kwaka (“at, in, to (a body of water)”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [naʔkʷaka]

Adverb

na'kwaka

  1. in the water, in the river

Derived terms

References
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “nākukwāno”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “na'kwaka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 270
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “na:'kuka / na:'kwakwa / na:'kukwa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 239, 269
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