ekku'ka

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Ye'kwana

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ekku'ka

  1. (transitive) to squeeze, to express

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ekku'ka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “e'kuka:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • 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