| Part of Speech | noun |
| Root | árata |
| Variant Form(s) | irregular 3rd person possessed form: waarata |
| Grammar Note | This noun is restricted to a single possessive construction in which it obligatorily possesses a noun, and must itself bear a possessive prefix. In this construction, the possessum of <árata> defines a group to which the possessor of <árata> belongs, and the entire possessive construction denotes an additional member (or members) of the group, distinct from the possessor of <árata>. Thus, in the expression <kw=árata máana> ‘my fellow male elder’, the possessum of <árata>, i.e., <máana> ‘male elder’, defines a class of individuals, i.e., elder males, and the first person possessor of <árata>, i.e., <kw=>, indicates that the speaker belongs to this class. As a whole, the possessive construction <kw=árata máana> denotes an individual who belongs to this class, in addition to denoting the possessor of <árata>, i.e., ‘my fellow male elder’ |
Example 157:
Naa=kana=anikiaaná kina=siwɨráani=ánuura, kw=árata máana.We have also come to visit you, my fellow elder.
Example 158:
Kaa kia=ípɨɨtakuma kia=árata mɨɨsaji.Don’t fight with your fellow women.