nnü'tö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	nnü'tö
Brazilian standard	nnö'tä
New Tribes	nnö'tä

Etymology

From nnü (“thing, belonging”) +‎ -tö (benefactive verbalizer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nnɨʔtə]

Verb

nnü'tö

1. (transitive) to give a child his or her first beads

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “inñü'tö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 228: “inñö’tadö”