a'ka
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- (Ye'kwana) aka
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aʔka]
Postposition
a'ka
- (De'kwana dialect) at, in, on, to; indicates a specific location or goal at a non-aquatic object of class 1
See also
Maquiritari 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
- (transitive) to serve
References
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “De’kwana Dictionary”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “aka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 267–272