saaku

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːku/ [ˈsaːkʊ]
• Hyphenation: saa‧ku

Noun

sáaku m (plural saakitté f)

1. day
2. morning

Declension

Declension of sáaku
absolutive	sáaku
predicative	sáaku
subjective	saakí
genitive	saakí
Postpositioned forms l-case sáakul k-case sáakuk t-case sáakut h-case sáakuh

Derived terms

• a sáaku

 

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “saàku”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Southeastern Tepehuan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish saco (“jacket”), from Latin saccus (“sack”), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos), from a Semitic language.

Noun

saaku (plural sasku)

1. a type of blouse (clarification of this definition is needed)

References

• R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎^[2] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 148

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	saaku
Brazilian standard	saaku
New Tribes	saacu

Alternative forms

• shaaku (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [saːku]

Noun

saaku

1. sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “saaku”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 31: “saku”
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 227, 398: “sha:ku 'potato' […] sha:ku - potato”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “šāku”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021