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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From öt- (intransitivizer) + eetija (“to trade for”).
Pronunciation
Verb
ötötija
- (Caura River dialect, intransitive, agentive) to trade, to exchange (to engage in buying and selling or barter)
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ötötija”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, 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, 403: “[wëtë'tiha:në] 'exchange, trade' […] wötö'tiha - I trade (things) […] wötö'tiha:nö - to trade”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “wətəʔtihānə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021