ö'kö'de

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ö'kö'de
Brazilian standard	ä'kä'de
New Tribes	ä'cä'de

Alternative forms

• ö'köde (Brazil)

Etymology

From öjö (irregular alteration of ejö) +‎ -kö (imperative suffix) +‎ -'de (delayed suffix); unlike other imperatives, this form is lexicalized with -'de attached and never appears without it, and, when a delayed imperative is meant, a second -'de must be suffixed to the word.

For the initial vowel in the irregular root form *öjö, compare Trió ëepï, Panare ëpï.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əʔkəʔde]

Verb

ö'kö'de

1. singular imperative of ejö (“to come”)

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ö'kö'de”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 161, 230–231
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ä'käde”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ö'kö:de”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University