wa'to

See also: wato, wàto, and 'wa'tö

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *wapoto. Cognate to Yao (South America) ouapoto.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [waʔto]

Noun

wa'to (possessed wa'todü)

  1. firewood
  2. match (for lighting fires)
    Synonym: tüsochaamü
  3. fire, flame
    Synonym: udinñü

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wa'to”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wa:'to”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wāʔto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • 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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