ö'kö'de

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From öjö (irregular alteration of ejö) +‎ -kö (imperative suffix) +‎ -'de (delayed suffix); unlike other imperatives, this form is lexicalized with -'de attached and never appears without it, and, when a delayed imperative is meant, a second -'de must be suffixed to the word.

For the initial vowel in the irregular root form *öjö, compare Trió ëepï, Panare ëpï.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [əʔkəʔde]

Verb

ö'kö'de

  1. singular imperative of ejö (“to come”)

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ö'kö'de”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, pages 161, 230–231
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ö'kö:de”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
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