ntatü'

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ntatü'
Brazilian standard	ntatö'
New Tribes	ntatö'

Etymology

Cognate to Kari'na yntaty (“to wash (someone’s) mouth”). By surface analysis, nta (“mouth”) +‎ atü (“to wash”).

Verb

ntatü'

1. (transitive) to wash (someone’s) mouth

Derived terms

• entatü'

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 138
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ičoʔka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021