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ütö. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
ütö, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
ütö in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
ütö you have here. The definition of the word
ütö will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
ütö, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Ye'kwana
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *tô (“to go”).
Pronunciation
Verb
ütö
- (intransitive) to go
- 2008, speaker ‘Anl’ from Boca de Piña (CtoWoshi.005), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, page 355:
¿Össa küntaakö tüwü?- Where was he going?
- (intransitive) to walk, stroll
Usage notes
This verb takes an irregular suffix -mö in place of the ordinary recent/distant past perfective suffix -i. Similarly, the plural form of the same suffix is -nto rather than -icho.
The imperative form is also irregular: singular öjöne, plural ojonkomo.
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ütö(mö)”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 129, 215–216, 230–231
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “i:'chö:dü, wü:tö:nö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “wɨʔtə̄-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-ōhoyma-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021