kaw
| Pronunciation | [kaw] |
| Definition | ‘sound and movement of stepping on dried leaves, of biting down onto something crunchy, or of a thrashing movement within water’ |
| Sensory Modality | MOVEMENT > Haptic
MOVEMENT
SOUND |
Paralinguistic
Description | May be uttered with aspirated initial consonant and unvoiced vowels. |
| Transcription | kiʎuta shina ɾaɕa kaw kaw kaw kaw kaw kaw ɲa amaɾuŋ ajtɕaga bagɾi ajtɕa ɕinaɕi tɕakitɕikpi tɕajaɕka |
| Translation | ‘Cooking it till it was golden brown, and (eating it, crunching) kaw kaw kaw kaw kaw kaw kaw, the anaconda meat cooked up (nicely) like catfish meat, when they dried it.’ |
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| Transcription | ima ujakpi jaŋga kaw kaw kw kw kw kw kw kaw kaw kaw kaw kawɕi amaɾun kaɾata mikuɕa… |
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| Transcription | kaj lulunda sikwaŋga upig aŋ; kajbi tag kaniɕa, tas ajsaɕa, kaw kaw kaw liŋ limpug aŋ |
| Translation | 'This fruit, the toucan is a drinker of; biting onto it tag, pulling it tas, (and then chewing it) kaw kaw kaw, (and then) ling! it swallows it!' |
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| Transcription | tinahataga khawʃi waktak ʃamuʃa warmiɡa |
| Translation | And as for the tinaha, hitting (it) the woman came. |
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| Transcription | ɲa pakiʃka tinahataɡa ɲa khawʃi waktak ʃamuʃka |
| Translation | Now, as for the tinaha, it was smashed; now, they say that 'khaw' she came as a hitter. |
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Nuckolls, Janis and Charles Alger. 2024. kaw. The Quechua Ideophonic Dictionary. Online: https://quechuarealwords.byu.edu/?ideophone=kaw.
