ütö
Ye'kwana
Alternative forms
- üttö, ü'tö
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *tô (“to go”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɨtə]
Verb
ütö
Usage notes
This verb takes an irregular suffix -mö in place of the ordinary recent/distant past perfective suffix -i. Similarly, the plural form of the same suffix is -nto rather than -icho.
The imperative form is also irregular: singular öjöne, plural ojonkomo.
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ütö(mö)”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 129, 215–216, 230–231
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “i:'chö:dü, wü:tö:nö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “wɨʔtə̄-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-ōhoyma-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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