ököyu

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôkôju.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [əkəːju]

Noun

ököyu

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) snake

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ökkööyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ökö:yu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “əkə̄yu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • 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 201: “Äcayu”
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