aijuku
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | aijuku |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | aijhuku |
| New Tribes | aijucu |
Alternative forms
[edit]- aijuka (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]aijuku (Caura River dialect)
- (transitive) to strike, to hit (someone with something)
- (transitive) to ritually whip (someone)
- (transitive) to smite, to kill (someone) by striking them
References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aijuku”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “aijhukuudu”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 401: “wayhyu'ka - I hit/strike (him/her/it)”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “-aiʔhuka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Briceño, Luis García (2024) Walking with Jesus in indigenous Amazonia: for an anthropology of paths[4], London: London School of Economics and Political Science, page 120: “aijucudu”