öwattö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV öwattö
Brazilian standard äwattä
New Tribes äwattä

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [əwattə]

Noun

öwattö (possessed öwattü or ewüttü)

  1. home
  2. cave, den, lair (of an animal)
  3. container, vessel, holder

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öwattö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon, page 114
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 223, 291: “ewütü 'lair' […] ye:wü'tü 'urn, lair, holder'”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ewɨ̄tɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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