sooka

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	sooka
Brazilian standard	sooka
New Tribes	sooca

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [soːka]

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• shooka (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Verb

sooka (Caura River dialect, transitive)

1. to pierce, to puncture
2. to sew

Derived terms

• eso'ka

 

Etymology 2

Noun

sooka

1. the great antshrike, Taraba major

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sooka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “sooka”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎^[2] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 123
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226–228, 398: “sho:kadü 'to sew' […] [wi:ṣ̌o:qa] 'I sew' […] sho:kadü 'to sew' […] sho:kadü - to sew”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “šōka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021