a'ka

Ye'kwana

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• aka (Caura River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aʔka]

Postposition

a'ka

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) at, in, on, to; indicates a specific location or goal at a non-aquatic object of class 1

See also

Ye'kwana 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

Etymology 2

Verb

a'ka

1. (transitive) to serve

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aka, a'ka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 267–272
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 296
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔka”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021