See also: otto, Otto, òtto, Ottó, and -otto

Ye'kwana edit

Variant orthographies
Bolívar state öttö
Brazil ättä
historical ad hoc atta
 
three öttös

Etymology edit

From Proto-Cariban *ôwtô (house); compare Kari'na auto, Wayana ëutë, Waiwai ïwtï, Akawaio öutö, Macushi ewîtî, Pemon autö.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

öttö

  1. communal village roundhouse or churuata, organized into a central ritual space (anna) surrounded by rooms for individual families (ö'sa)
  2. village

References edit

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öttö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “öttö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “atta”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
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    Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 21 et seq.
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    Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 49–52