atotö
Ye'kwana
| ALIV | atotö |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | atootä |
| New Tribes | atootä |
Alternative forms
- a'to'tö
Etymology
From a'to (“rope, twine”) + -tö (benefactive verbalizer).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [atoːtə]
Verb
atotö (transitive)
- to string, to thread, to put (beads, etc.) on a string
- to tie to something, to tie up, to moor
- to weave
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “atotö”, 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: “a'to'toto'ho - to weave”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔtoʔtotoʔho”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021