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Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
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| Brazilian standard
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| New Tribes
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Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *wapoto. Cognate to Yao (South America) ouapoto.
Pronunciation
Noun
wa'to (possessed wa'todü)
- firewood
- match (for lighting fires)
- Synonym: tüsochaamü
- fire, flame
- Synonym: udinñü
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wa'to”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wa:'to”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “wāʔto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨsočāmɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021