yaka
See also: Yaka, þaka, and ya'ka
Chinook Jargon
Pronoun
yaka
- he, she, it, him, her
- his, her, its
See also
- klaska
Jamamadí
Verb
yaka
- (Banawá) to walk
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Japanese
Romanization
yaka
- Rōmaji transcription of やか
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- (De'kwana) ya'ka
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɟaka]
Verb
yaka (Ye'kwana dialect, transitive)
- to assart, to clear (trees and plants) from a field or garden in slash-and-burn agriculture
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “yaka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “yaʔka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “ukā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
Nupe
Yakázhì
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jā.ká/
Noun
yaká (plural yakázhì)
- Capsicum frutescens (chili pepper)
- Synonym: yakági
Derived terms
- yakági
- yakákó
Ometepec Nahuatl
Noun
yaka
- nose
Tocharian B
Adverb
yaka
- nevertheless
- furthermore
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یاقه (yaka), from Proto-Turkic *yaka (“collar; edge”) (compare Hungarian borrowing nyak). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jaqa, “collar”), Kazakh жаға (jağa, “collar”), Kyrgyz жака (jaka, “collar; shore, bank”),Uzbek yoqa (“collar; side; shore, bank”), Khakas чаға (çağa, “trousers/pants' belt; edge”), Yakut саҕа (sağa, “collar; edge”), etc.
Noun
yaka (definite accusative yakayı, plural yakalar)
- collar
- gömleğimin yakası ― the collar of my shirt
- side (of a district or geographical feature)
- Avrupa Yakası ― European Side
- (nautical) edge of a sail
Declension
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| Definite accusative | yakayı | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nominative | yaka | yakalar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Definite accusative | yakayı | yakaları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dative | yakaya | yakalara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locative | yakada | yakalarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ablative | yakadan | yakalardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genitive | yakanın | yakaların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- yakalamak (“to collar, seize, apprehend”)
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yaka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یاقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2189
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
Wauja
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jaˈka/
Noun
yaka
- spectacled (White or common) caiman, caimans, Caiman crocodilus.
- Yaka WEke. Ah, kawikaapapai ka jouhan! ... Yakakuma jano han!
- [He was a] gigantic caiman. Ah, [he] was terrifying indeed, that one! ....[The] Caiman Spirit, he was!
- Iye ejekujata ipitsi, ayakatapai umapai. EjekuJAtapai tonejunaun. Ipitsi ja umapai: ayakatawi.
- Kamani iya yaka okaho?
- Itsa ejekuJAtapai, ententsapai kupato. Ipitsi inyaun wi, kata inyaun, kata enojanaun, iya ayakata, umakonapai yiu whun, iya ententsapai papisulu.
- [Mayanu:] When someone goes to await [someone] — that's what ayakatapai means. [When men] wait [patiently] a long time for women. That's what we call ayakatapai.
- [Anthropologist asks why the word mentions the caiman.]
- [Kaomo:] That's how [caimans] wait, motionless — they're on the lookout for fish. So [you say the] same thing about those people, those men, who go to await their lovers, [who stand alert and motionless], waiting for [the] women [to come out of their houses].
- Yaka WEke. Ah, kawikaapapai ka jouhan! ... Yakakuma jano han!
Derived terms
- ayakata (“awaits a lover”)
- Yakaojokuma (“Great Caiman Spirit”)
References
- Species identification from E. Ireland field notes, confirmed with Piitsa, Muri, and other elders (all experienced hunters) in 1982 using José Cândido de Melo Carvalho's Atlas da Fauna Brasileira, Edições Melhoramentos, São Paulo, 1981.
- "Yaka WEke" (transcript, pp. 18-19), and "Aminya yikiyantawi!" (p. 31) uttered by Arutatumpa, storyteller and elder, and members of his audience, as he recounted the traditional tale, the "Caiman Spirit" (Yakaojokuma). Recorded in Piyulaga village in the presence of assembled elders and others, November 1989. Recorded in BBC film, "The Storyteller."
- "Iye ejekujata" (transcript p. 84), uttered by Mayano and his father Kaomo, upon listening to a recording of Arutatumpa's performance of the Yakaojokuma story.
Zacatepec Chatino
Etymology
From Proto-Chatino *yaka, from Proto-Zapotecan *yaka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ja.ka/
Noun
yaka
- tree
- wood
Derived terms
- yaka naʔan
- yaka yoo
References
- Stéphanie Villard (2015) The Phonology and Morphology of Zacatepec Eastern Chatino, University of Texas at Austin (PhD thesis), page 53