weetü
Ye'kwana edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cariban *wetɨ (“feces”). Hall analyzes the final -tü as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
weetü (possessed weetü)
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, page 291