jakiya

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV jakiya
Brazilian standard fakiiya
New Tribes jaquiiya

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pakira; compare Apalaí pakira, Kari'na pakira, Trió pakira, Wayana pakila, Akawaio pakira, Pemon pakira, Yao (South America) pockiero.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hʷakiːja]

Noun

jakiya

  1. the collared peccary, Dicotyles tajacu

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jakiya”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], 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]‎[2] (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)”
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.