ükajü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ükajü
Brazilian standard	ökaajö
New Tribes	öcaajö

Alternative forms

• akajü (women of Boca de Piña)
• ü'kajü (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *kapɨ (“to weave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɨkaːhɨ]

Verb

ükajü

1. (Caura River dialect, transitive) to weave

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ükajü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “akajü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 222, 223, 396, 400: “nu'ka'a 'he weaves' […] [tü'ka'hïdï] ~ [tü'ka:hïdï] 'to weave' […] tü'ka'hüdü ~ tü'ka:hüdü 'to weave' […] nü'ka'a - s/he weaves (it) […] tü'ka'hüdü - to weave”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨʔkaʔhɨdɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021