eeka

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôteka (“to bite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eːka]

Verb

eeka

1. (transitive) to bite

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “eeka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “eekadö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “e:ka:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 315
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ēkādɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021