Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV naatü'tö
Brazilian standard naatö'tä
New Tribes naatö'tä

Etymology

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From natü (plant) +‎ -tö (benefactive verbalizer).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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naatü'tö

  1. (transitive) to plant, to sow

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “naatü'tö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “inñatü'tö:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “inɲatɨʔtə̄dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021