eeka

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV eeka
Brazilian standard eeka
New Tribes eeca

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[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho; Silva, Marcelo Costa da; Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021), “eekadö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 315, 389: “-e:ka- 'bite' […] e:ka:dü - to bite, chew”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “ēkādɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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