kütto

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV kütto
Brazilian standard kötto
New Tribes cötto
A waja decorated with four repetitions of the kütto pattern.

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Noun

kütto

  1. tree frog of genus Hyla
  2. ditch frog of genus Leptodactylus
  3. a zoomorphic basket design representing a frog in the form of a rectangle with four forward-curving L-shaped legs
  4. an unidentified constellation, the Frog
  5. a kind of loricariid or auchenipterid catfish, the ‘chola’ fish, variously identified as Ageneiosus sp., Rineloricaria caracasensis, or Rineloricaria formosa
    Synonyms: chooda, majajaase

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kütto”, 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, 393: “[kï'ṭo] 'frog' […] kü'to - frog”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “kɨʔto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “kutto”, 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, pages 115, 200–201: “kutto”
  • 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, page 37: “ku’to”
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