atotö

See also: atotô, atọtọ, and atɔtɔ

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	atotö
Brazilian standard	atootä
New Tribes	atootä

Alternative forms

• a'to'tö

Etymology

From a'to (“rope, twine”) +‎ -tö (benefactive verbalizer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [atoːtə]

Verb

atotö (transitive)

1. to string, to thread, to put (beads, etc.) on a string
2. to tie to something, to tie up, to moor
3. to weave

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “atotö”, 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: “a'to'toto'ho - to weave”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔtoʔtotoʔho”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021