akötö

See also: akọtọ

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	akötö
Brazilian standard	akäätä
New Tribes	acäätä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *akôtô (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [akəːtə]

Verb

akötö

1. (transitive) to cut, to cut off

Derived terms

• amökötö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “akötö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 386: “akötödü - to be cutting”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ākə̄tədɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021