adhawaanai
Ye'kwana
editALIV | adhawaanai |
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Brazilian standard | adhaawaanai |
New Tribes | adhaawaanai |
Etymology
editFrom ö- (second-person prefix) + awaana (“to get up, to dawn”) + -i (recent past perfective suffix), literally “you got up”.
Pronunciation
editInterjection
editadhawaanai
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) a morning greeting
References
edit- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 218: “[adawa:nai] ~ [aðawa:nai] 'Did you get up alright [sic]?' (morning greeting)”