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ejukka

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV ejukka
Brazilian standard ejukka
New Tribes ejucca

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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ejukka (intransitive, patientive)

  1. to fall
  2. to be(come) wrecked, to founder, to sink

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ejukka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 404:yehu'kwai - to be or become wrecked, founder; to sink, fall through
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “yehuʔkwai”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021