ütö
Ye'kwana edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cariban *tô (“to go”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ütö
- (intransitive) to go
- 2008, speaker ‘Anl’ from Boca de Piña (CtoWoshi.005), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, page 355:
- ¿Össa küntaakö tüwü?
- Where was he going?
- 2008, speaker ‘Anl’ from Boca de Piña (CtoWoshi.005), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, page 355:
- (intransitive) to walk, stroll
Usage notes edit
This verb takes an irregular suffix -mö in place of the ordinary recent/distant past perfective suffix -i. Similarly, the plural form of the same suffix is -nto rather than -icho.
The imperative form is also irregular: singular öjöne, plural ojonkomo.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ütö(mö)”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 129, 215–216, 230–231
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “i:'chö:dü, wü:tö:nö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “wɨʔtə̄-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “w-ōhoyma-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021