ntatü'

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ntatü'
Brazilian standard ntatö'
New Tribes ntatö'

Etymology

Cognate to Kari'na yntaty (“to wash (someone’s) mouth”). By surface analysis, nta (“mouth”) +‎ atü (“to wash”).

Verb

ntatü'

  1. (transitive) to wash (someone’s) mouth

Derived terms

References

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 138
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ičoʔka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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