ö'tökö

See also: otoko and ötö'kö

Ye'kwana edit

Etymology edit

From öjö (irregular alteration of ejö) +‎ -tö (non-third-person plural suffix) +‎ -kö (imperative suffix); the extra -'de from the singular form disappears.

For the initial vowel in the irregular root form *öjö, compare Trió ëepï, Panare ëpï.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [əʔtəkə]

Verb edit

ö'tökö

plural imperative of ejö (“to come”)

References edit

Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ö'tökö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 230–231