kooko

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV kooko
Brazilian standard kooko
New Tribes cooco

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [koːko]

Noun

kooko

  1. first-person possessed form of tamu: my grandfather

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kooko”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 222, 392: “ko:ko 'grandfather' […] ko:ko - grandfather”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kōko”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • 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, pages 70, 74: “kooko”

Yoruba

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Contraction of koríko.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kōó.kō/

Noun

koóko

  1. alternative form of koríko (“grass, weed”)
    Synonym: ìgò
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