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Ye'kwana
- akajü (women of Boca de Piña)
- ü'kajü (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *kapɨ (“to weave”).
Pronunciation
Verb
ükajü
- (Caura River dialect, transitive) to weave
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ükajü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “akajü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 222, 223, 396, 400: “nu'ka'a 'he weaves' […] [tü'ka'hïdï] ~ [tü'ka:hïdï] 'to weave' […] tü'ka'hüdü ~ tü'ka:hüdü 'to weave' […] nü'ka'a - s/he weaves (it) […] tü'ka'hüdü - to weave”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨʔkaʔhɨdɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021