aijuka

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• aijuku (Caura River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ajçuka]

Verb

aijuka (Cunucunuma River dialect)

1. (transitive) to strike, to hit (someone with something)
2. (transitive) to smite, to kill (someone) by striking them

References

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