ököyu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ököyu
Brazilian standard	äkääyu
New Tribes	äcääyu

Alternative forms

• ökkööyu (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôkôju.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əkəːju]

Noun

ököyu

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect and Brazil) snake

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ökkööyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “äkääyu”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ökö:yu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “əkə̄yu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• 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, page 201: “Äcayu”