aijuku

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	aijuku
Brazilian standard	aijhuku
New Tribes	aijucu

Alternative forms

• aijuka (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ajçuku]

Verb

aijuku (Caura River dialect)

1. (transitive) to strike, to hit (someone with something)
2. (transitive) to ritually whip (someone)
3. (transitive) to smite, to kill (someone) by striking them

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aijuku”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “aijhukuudu”, 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, page 401: “wayhyu'ka - I hit/strike (him/her/it)”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “-aiʔhuka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Briceño, Luis García (2024) Walking with Jesus in indigenous Amazonia: for an anthropology of paths‎^[4], London: London School of Economics and Political Science, page 120: “aijucudu”