a'ka

Maquiritari

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [aʔka]

Postposition

a'ka

  1. (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

  1. (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
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