ököyu

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ököyu
Brazilian standard äkääyu
New Tribes äcääyu

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôkôju.

Pronunciation

Noun

ököyu

  1. snake

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ökkööyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 284, 365, 366, 448
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “äkääyu”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ökö:yu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “əkə̄yu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • 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 201:Äcayu