kudata

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kudata (verbal noun of the ku class)

1. infinitive of -data

• IPA^(key): [kuɾ̠aːta]

kudata (obligatorily possessed; possessed kudatai)

1. a kind of reed, Iriartella setigera, used to make the inner part of a blowgun
2. blowgun

• Kudatanña

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kudata”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kuda:ta”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
• 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, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 223: “cudata”