tüsochaamü
Ye'kwana
editALIV | tüsochaamü |
---|---|
Brazilian standard | tösoochaamö |
New Tribes | tösoochaamö |
Etymology
editFrom t- -e (adverbializer) + soicha (“to scratch”) + -mü (patient nominalizer), thus literally ‘the one to be scratched’.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittüsochaamü
References
edit- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 228, 400: “[tïṣoča:mị̈] 'match, light for the fire' […] [tïṣoča:mụ̈] 'match, light' […] tüsocha:mü - light, matches”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨsočāmɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021