ökato

See also: òkato

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôkatu (“shadow, spirit”).[1] Cognate with Waiwai ekatï (“soul, shadow, picture, vital force”) and the first elements of Pemon ekaton, Kari'na akatompo (“spirit, ghost”). Perhaps compare also Trió eka (“name”).[2]

An ultimate relation with aakö (“two”) has been suggested.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [əkaːto]

Noun

ökato (possessed ökato or ekato, past possessed ökatomjüdü or ekatomjüdü)

  1. shadow
  2. reflection in the water
  3. spirit, eternal invisible double of a person, object, or aspect of society, which can appear in the form of an animal and whose wanderings at night are the source of dreams

Derived terms

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ökato”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 113
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ökatomhö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “dōʔta”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • The template Template:R:mch:Guss does not use the parameter(s): 
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  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “akato”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
  • The template Template:R:mch:Gongora does not use the parameter(s): 
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  1. Gildea, Spike & Payne, Doris (2007) “Is Greenberg’s ‘Macro-Carib’ viable?” in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, Belém, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 19-72.
  2. Rivière, Peter (1997) “Carib soul matters—since Fock” in JASO 28/2, pages 139–148
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