atajima
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Ye'kwana
[edit]ALIV | atajima |
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Brazilian standard | ataajima |
New Tribes | ataajima |
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from öt- (intransitivizer) + *ajima (“to sit (someone) down”), although it is unclear whether the latter verb can be attested.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]atajima
- (Caura River dialect, intransitive, agentive) to sit down
References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “atajima”, 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 401: “watahhima:nö - to sit down”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-atahhimā-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021