shooka

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• sooka (Caura River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃoːka]

Verb

shooka (Cunucunuma River dialect)

1. (transitive) to pierce, to puncture
2. (transitive) to sew

Derived terms

• eso'ka

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sooka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “sho:kadü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “šōka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021