ökato
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See also: òkato
Ye'kwana[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Cariban *ôkatu (“shadow, spirit”).[1] Cognate with Waiwai ekatï (“soul, shadow, picture, vital force”) and the first elements of Pemon ekaton, Kari'na akatompo (“spirit, ghost”). Perhaps compare also Trió eka (“name”).[2]
An ultimate relation with aakö (“two”) has been suggested.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ökato (possessed ökato or ekato, past possessed ökatomjüdü or ekatomjüdü)
- shadow
- reflection in the water
- spirit, eternal invisible double of a person, object, or aspect of society, which can appear in the form of an animal and whose wanderings at night are the source of dreams
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ökato”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 113
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ökatomhö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “dōʔta”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 22, 31–32, 41–42, 50–52: “akato”
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “akato”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
- Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris[3], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo: “chääkato”
- Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela[4], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 205–208: “äcato”