ökato

== Ye'kwana == === Etymology === From Proto-Cariban *ôkatu (“shadow, spirit”). 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”). An ultimate relation with aakö (“two”) has been suggested. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [əkaːto] === Noun === ökato (possessed ökato or ekato, past possessed ökatomjüdü or ekatomjüdü) shadow reflection in the water 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[1], 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[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021 Guss, David M. (1989), To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 22, 31–32, 41–42, 50–52: “akato” de Civrieux, Marc (1980), “akato”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017), Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎[3], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo: “chääkato” Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005), Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎[4], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 205–208: “äcato”