a'ka

Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
ALIV a'ka
Brazilian standard a'ka
New Tribes a'ca

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [aʔka]

Postposition

a'ka

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) at, in, on, to; indicates a specific location or goal at a non-aquatic object of class 1
See also
Ye'kwana primitive postpositions
generic location specific location or goal pathway
object class 1 awö aka ai
object class 2 tawö taka tai
aquatic object kwawö kwaka kwai

Verb

a'ka

  1. (transitive) to serve

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aka, a'ka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, pages 267–272
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “aka”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 296
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔka”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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