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Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Verb
ko'ka
- (transitive) to wash (something other than a human or human body part)
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ko'kwa”, 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 226–228, 387: “cho:kadü 'wash clothes, table, etc.' […] [č̣o:'kadï] 'to wash things' […] cho:kadü 'wash clothes, table, etc.' […] cho:'kadü - to wash things”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ičoʔka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “Refers to washing things/objects, distinct from human beings.”