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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *ôtɨ. Hall analyzes the final -tü as ultimately a fossilized derivational suffix.
Pronunciation
Noun
otü (possessed otü)
- meat, catch
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “otü”, 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 220, 291, 396, 404: “d - o:'tü > do:'tü 'his meat' […] yo:'tü 'meat, catch' […] odo:tü - your meat, booty […] yo:tü - my flesh, my meat”