ökato

From Proto-Cariban *ôkatu (“shadow, spirit”).^[1] Cognate with Waiwai ekatï (“soul, shadow, picture, vital force”) and the first elements of Pemon ekaton, Kari'na akatompo (“spirit, ghost”). Perhaps compare also Trió eka (“name”).^[2]

An ultimate relation with aakö (“two”) has been suggested.

• IPA^(key):

ökato (possessed ökato or ekato, past possessed ökatomjüdü or ekatomjüdü)

1. shadow
2. reflection in the water
3. spirit, eternal invisible double of a person, object, or aspect of society, which can appear in the form of an animal and whose wanderings at night are the source of dreams

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ökato”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 113
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ökatomhö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “dōʔta”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• 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, pages 22, 31–32, 41–42, 50–52: “akato”
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “akato”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo: “chääkato”
• 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, pages 205–208: “äcato”