öökatonka

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	öökatonka
Brazilian standard	ääkatonka
New Tribes	ääcatonca

Alternative forms

• öökatonkwa

Etymology

From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ ökatomjö (“ghost, ex-spirit”) +‎ -ka (privative verbalizer), thus literally ‘to have one’s ghost taken away’. Compare Kari'na otàkaryka (“to suffer, be tortured, get scared”), with a similar but slightly different construction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əːkatoŋka]

Verb

öökatonka (intransitive, agentive)

1. to get scared
2. to hurry up and do something, to make haste

References

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ääkatonkwakä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI