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üka

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV üka
Brazilian standard öka
New Tribes öca

Alternative forms

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  • ü'kaa (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

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Verb

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üka

  1. (Caura River dialect, transitive) to dig

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “üka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tü'ka:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨʔkādɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021