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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From t- -e (adverbializer) + soicha (“to scratch”) + -mü (patient nominalizer), thus literally ‘the one to be scratched’.
Pronunciation
Noun
tüsochaamü
- match (for lighting fires)
- Synonym: wa'to
References
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 228, 400: “[tïṣoča:mị̈] 'match, light for the fire' […] [tïṣoča:mụ̈] 'match, light' […] tüsocha:mü - light, matches”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨsočāmɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021