eeka'tümü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	eeka'tümü
Brazilian standard	eeka'tömö
New Tribes	eeca'tömö

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ekatu, *ekatumɨ (“to run”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eːkaʔtɨmɨ]

Verb

eeka'tümü

1. (intransitive, patientive) to run

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “eeka'tümü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-ekaʔtɨn-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021