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sooka

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV sooka
Brazilian standard sooka
New Tribes sooca

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Alternative forms

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  • shooka (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Verb

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sooka (Caura River dialect, transitive)

  1. to pierce, to puncture
  2. to sew
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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sooka

  1. the great antshrike, Taraba major

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sooka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “sooka”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎[2] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 123
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226–228, 398:sho:kadü 'to sew' [] [wi:ṣ̌o:qa] 'I sew' [] sho:kadü 'to sew' [] sho:kadü - to sew
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “šōka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021