ötötija

See also: ötö'tija

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ötötija
Brazilian standard	ätäätijha
New Tribes	ätäätija

Alternative forms

• ötö'tija (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ eetija (“to trade for”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ətəːtiça]

Verb

ötötija

1. (Caura River dialect, intransitive, agentive) to trade, to exchange (to engage in buying and selling or barter)

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ötötija”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], 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, 403: “[wëtë'tiha:në] 'exchange, trade' […] wötö'tiha - I trade (things) […] wötö'tiha:nö - to trade”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “wətəʔtihānə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021