wokü

From Proto-Cariban *woku (“drink”); compare Apalaí oku, Kari'na woku, Trió jokï, Wayana okï, Waiwai woku, Akawaio uku, Macushi woku, Pemon wok.

• IPA^(key): [βokɨ]

wokü (possessed woküdü)

1. manioc gruel or mush

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wokü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 111
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wo:küdü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 238: “wocö”