ekku'ka

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ekku'ka
Brazilian standard ekku'ka
New Tribes eccu'ca

Etymology

From ökkudu (“sap, liquid”) +‎ -ka (privative verbalizer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ekkuʔka]

Verb

ekku'ka

  1. (transitive) to squeeze, to express

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ekku'ka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 389: “e'kuka:dü - to squeeze, express”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “eʔkukā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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