atotö

See also: atɔtɔ

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms
  • a'totö

Etymology

From a'to (“rope, twine”) +‎ -tö (benefactive verbalizer).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [atoːtə]

Verb

atotö

  1. (transitive) to string, to thread, to put (beads, etc.) on a string
  2. (transitive) to tie to something, to tie up, to moor
  3. (transitive) to weave

References
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔtoʔtotoʔho”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “atotö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “a'to'toto'ho”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
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