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Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Noun
kooko
- first-person possessed form of tamu: my grandfather
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kooko”, 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, 392: “ko:ko 'grandfather' […] ko:ko - grandfather”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “kōko”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 70, 74: “kooko”
Yoruba
Etymology
From Contraction of koríko.
Pronunciation
Noun
koóko
- Alternative form of koríko (“grass, weed”)
- Synonym: ìgò