See also: uto, utó, utó-, ütő, and -uto

Ye'kwana edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Cariban *tô (to go).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

ütö

  1. (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?
  2. (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