öttö

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See also: otto, Otto, òtto, Ottó, and -otto

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV öttö
Brazilian standard ättä
New Tribes ättä
historical ad hoc atta
three öttös

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôwtô (house); compare Kari'na auto, Wayana ëutë, Waiwai ïwtï, Akawaio öutö, Macushi ewîtî, Pemon autö.

Pronunciation

Noun

öttö

  1. communal village roundhouse or churuata, organized into a central ritual space (anna) surrounded by rooms for individual families (ö'sa)
  2. village

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öttö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ättä”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “öttö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “atta”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
  • Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 21 et seq.:atta
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 49–52:öttö, ötto