atotö
See also: atɔtɔ
Ye'kwana edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From a'to (“rope, twine”) + -tö (benefactive verbalizer).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
atotö
- (transitive) to string, to thread, to put (beads, etc.) on a string
- (transitive) to tie to something, to tie up, to moor
- (transitive) to weave
References edit
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔtoʔtotoʔho”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “atotö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[2], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “a'to'toto'ho”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University