Ye'kwana edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Alternative forms edit

  • shooka (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Verb edit

sooka (Caura River dialect)

  1. (transitive) to pierce, to puncture
  2. (transitive) to sew
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

sooka

  1. the great antshrike, Taraba major

References edit

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sooka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “sooka”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎[2] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 123
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “sho:kadü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “šōka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021