wokü

See also: woku, WoKü, and wókʾu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	wokü
Brazilian standard	wokö
New Tribes	wocö

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *woku (“drink”); compare Apalaí oku, Kari'na woku, Trió jokï, Wayana okï, Waiwai woku, Akawaio uku, Macushi woku, Pemon wok.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [βokɨ]

Noun

wokü (possessed woküdü)

1. manioc gruel or mush

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wokü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 111
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 224, 289, 402: “wo:küdü > *wo:kküdü > wo:'küdü 'my yucuta' […] wokü -wokü -dü 'manioc drink' […] wo'kü - manioc meal or mush […] wo:küdü - my manioc meal or mush”
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 238: “wocö”