kooko

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kooko
Brazilian standard	kooko
New Tribes	cooco

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koːko]

Noun

kooko

1. first-person possessed form of tamu: my grandfather

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kooko”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], 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, 392: “ko:ko 'grandfather' […] ko:ko - grandfather”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “kōko”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 70, 74: “kooko”

Yoruba

Alternative forms

• koríko

Etymology

From Contraction of koríko.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kōó.kō/

Noun

koóko

1. Alternative form of koríko (“grass, weed”)

   Synonym: ìgò