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, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “e:ka:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes 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, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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