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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From ökkudu (“sap, liquid”) + -ka (privative verbalizer).
Pronunciation
Verb
ekku'ka
- (transitive) to squeeze, to express
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ekku'ka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “e'kuka:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “eʔkukā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021