tüsochaamü

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From t- -e (adverbializer) +‎ soicha (“to scratch”) +‎ -mü (patient nominalizer), thus literally ‘the one to be scratched’.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [tɨsoːt͡ʃaːmɨ]

Noun

tüsochaamü

  1. match (for lighting fires)
    Synonym: wa'to

References
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “tüsocha:mü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨsočāmɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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