ütö

See also: uto, utó, utó-, ütő, and -uto

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

  • üttö, ü'tö

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban * (to go).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɨtə]

Verb

ütö

  1. (intransitive) to go
    • 2008, speaker ‘Anl’ from Boca de Piña (CtoWoshi.005), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, page 355:
      ¿Össa küntaakö tüwü?
      Where was he going?
  2. (intransitive) to walk, stroll

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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