kütto

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kütto
Brazilian standard	kötto
New Tribes	cötto

A waja decorated with four repetitions of the kütto pattern.

Alternative forms

• kü'to

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɨtto]

Noun

kütto

1. tree frog of genus Hyla
2. ditch frog of genus Leptodactylus
3. a zoomorphic basket design representing a frog in the form of a rectangle with four forward-curving L-shaped legs
4. an unidentified constellation, the Frog
5. a kind of loricariid or auchenipterid catfish, the ‘chola’ fish, variously identified as Ageneiosus sp., Rineloricaria caracasensis, or Rineloricaria formosa

   Synonyms: chooda, majajaase

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kütto”, 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, pages 217, 393: “[kï'ṭo] 'frog' […] kü'to - frog”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “kɨʔto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “kutto”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 115, 200–201: “kutto”
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 37: “ku’to”