öökatonka

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV	öökatonka
Brazilian standard	ääkatonka
New Tribes	ääcatonca

Alternative forms

öökatonkwa

Etymology

From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ ökatomjö (“ghost, ex-spirit”) +‎ -ka (privative verbalizer), thus literally ‘to have one’s ghost taken away’. Compare Kari'na otàkaryka (“to suffer, be tortured, get scared”), with a similar but slightly different construction.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [əːkatoŋka]

Verb

öökatonka (intransitive, agentive)

to get scared
to hurry up and do something, to make haste

References

Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ääkatonkwakä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI