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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *pakira; compare Apalaí pakira, Kari'na pakira, Trió pakira, Wayana pakila, Akawaio pakira, Pemon pakira, Yao (South America) pockiero.
Pronunciation
Noun
jakiya
- the collared peccary, Dicotyles tajacu
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jakiya”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “jakiya”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 125
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 390: “ha'ki:ya - wild pig (Dicotyles tajacu)”