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kooko

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV kooko
Brazilian standard kooko
New Tribes cooco

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kooko

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

References

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  • 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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Contraction of koríko.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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koóko

  1. Alternative form of koríko (grass, weed)
    Synonym: ìgò