ekamjiyaka

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ekamjiyaka
Brazilian standard	ekamjiyaaka
New Tribes	ecamjiyaaca

Etymology

From e- (intransitivizer) +‎ kamjiyaka (“to change”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ekamm̥ijaːka]

Verb

ekamjiyaka

1. (intransitive, patientive) to change

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ekamjiyaka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 64
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-ekamhiaka-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021