yadákʼw
yadákʼw
young man (not married)
Part of Speech
Definition
Man; male; teenager | the basic stages of growth for a male in Tlingit are « tʼukanéiyi » (baby), « yadakʼwátskʼu » (boy), « yadákʼw » (adolescent male) « yées ḵáa » (young man), « yanwáat » (adult, elder), « ḵáa sháan » (old man) (KE)Sample Sentences
–yadákʼu - Boyfriend (KE)
yadakʼwátskʼu - Adolescent boy | boy, male, adolescent
Source
X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell, Tlingit Dictionary, 2024–yadákʼu
Part of Speech
Sample Sentences
–yadákʼu - Boyfriend (KE) | Elizabeth Nyman and Jeff Leer, Gágiwduł.àt: Brought Forth to Reconfirm, 1993, p. xxvii-xxviii
yadakʼwátskʼu - Adolescent boy | Jeff Leer, Doug Hitch, and John Ritter, Interior Tlingit Noun Dictionary, 2001, p. T96
Source
Leer Orthography; Elizabeth Nyman and Jeff Leer, Gágiwduł.àt: Brought Forth to Reconfirm, 1993, p. xxvii-xxviiiAdditional Media
Twitchell 2024 (Lingít Dictionary)
yadákʼw-u → young-man.relational
yadakʼw-kʼátskʼu → young-man. adolescent/small