a'deeja

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms
  • a'deuja

Etymology

Ultimately derived from a'deu (“word”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [aʔdeːha]

Verb

a'deeja

  1. (transitive) to call, to call to, to summon
  2. (transitive) to welcome, to greet

Derived terms

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “a'deeja”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “a:'deufa'to'me”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔdewhaʔdɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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