matutu

Kari'na

Etymology

Compare Pemon matutu, Ye'kwana matidi.

Pronunciation

• (Venezuela) IPA^(key): [matuttu]
• (West Suriname) IPA^(key): [matuːtu]
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [maduʔtu]

Noun

matutu (possessed matuturu)

1. a finely woven unlidded basket mainly used to collect sifted yuca flour

References

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 315
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “matutu”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[2], Paris, 1956

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	matutu
Brazilian standard	matuutu
New Tribes	matuutu
historical ad hoc	matuto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [matuːtu]

Noun

matutu

1. butterfly

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “matutu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “matuutu”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[4], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• 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, 394: “maṭu:ṭu 'butterfly' […] matu:tu 'butterfly' […] matu:tu - butterfly”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “matūtu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[5], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “matuto”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN