akoicha

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	akoicha
Brazilian standard	akoicha
New Tribes	acoicha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [akojt͡ʃa]

Verb

akoicha

1. (transitive) to end, to finish (something)
2. (transitive) to end, to finish (someone), to terminate or exterminate, to kill

Derived terms

• akoichanüjü
• akoicha'jüdü
• atakoicha

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “akoicha”, 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, page 386: “akoi'cha'hüdü - termination point, tip, top”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “akoiʔčaʔhɨdɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021