kudata

== Swahili == === Pronunciation === === Verb === kudata (verbal noun of the ku class) infinitive of -data == Ye'kwana == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [kuɾ̠aːta] === Noun === kudata (obligatorily possessed; possessed kudatai) a kind of reed, Iriartella setigera, used to make the inner part of a blowgun blowgun ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “kudata”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 219, 222, 290, 392: “[kuda:ta] 'blowgun' […] [ku:datai] 'my blowgun' […] [kuda'ta] 'blowgun' […] i-kuda'tay' > *kyuda'tay' > chuda'tay' 'his blowgun' […] ----- -kuda:'ta -i 'blow gun' […] kuda:ta - blow gun” 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 117: “kurata” Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005), Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 223: “cudata”