adawa'ta

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban [Term?]; compare Kari'na arawata, Trió arawata, Wayana alawata, Apalaí arauta, Akawaio arawta, Pemon arauta, Macushi arauta.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [aɾ̠aːwaʔta]

Noun

adawa'ta

  1. the Colombian red howler monkey, Alouatta seniculus

References
  • Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “adaua’ta”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎ (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “adawa'ta”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  1. Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, page 238.
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