öökatonka

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV öökatonka
Brazilian standard ääkatonka
New Tribes ääcatonca

Alternative forms

  • öökatonkwa

Etymology

From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ ökatomjö (“ghost, ex-spirit”) +‎ -ka (privative verbalizer), thus literally ‘to have one’s ghost taken away’. Compare Kari'na otàkaryka (“to suffer, be tortured, get scared”), with a similar but slightly different construction.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [əːkatoŋka]

Verb

öökatonka (intransitive, agentive)

  1. to get scared
  2. to hurry up and do something, to make haste

References

  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ääkatonkwakä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
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