eeka

== Ye'kwana == === Etymology === From Proto-Cariban *ôteka (“to bite”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [eːka] === Verb === eeka (transitive) to bite === References === Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “eeka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon Costa, Isabella Coutinho; Silva, Marcelo Costa da; Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021), “eekadö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 315, 389: “-e:ka- 'bite' […] e:ka:dü - to bite, chew” Hall, Katherine (2007), “ēkādɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021