anna'ka
See also: annaka
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- (Ye'kwana) annaka
Etymology
From anna (“central space”) + a'ka (“at, in, on, to”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [annaʔka]
Phrase
anna'ka
- (De'kwana dialect) in the central room of a village roundhouse, where unmarried men sleep and ritual activities take place
References
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “anna'ka”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 22–26, 32, 34