saaku

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Afar

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsaːku/ [ˈsaːkʊ]
  • Hyphenation: saa‧ku

Noun

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sáaku m (plural saakitté f)

  1. day
  2. morning

Declension

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Declension of sáaku
absolutive sáaku
predicative sáaku
subjective saakí
genitive saakí
Postpositioned forms
l-case sáakul
k-case sáakuk
t-case sáakut
h-case sáakuh

Derived terms

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References

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  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “saàku”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Southeastern Tepehuan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish saco (jacket), from Latin saccus (sack), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos), from a Semitic language.

Noun

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saaku (plural sasku)

  1. a type of blouse (clarification of this definition is needed)

References

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  • R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎[2] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 148

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV saaku
Brazilian standard saaku
New Tribes saacu

Alternative forms

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  • shaaku (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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saaku

  1. sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “saaku”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[3], Lyon
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 31:saku
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 227, 398:sha:ku 'potato' [] sha:ku - potato
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “šāku”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021