öwattö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	öwattö
Brazilian standard	äwattä
New Tribes	äwattä

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əwattə]

Noun

öwattö (possessed öwattü or ewüttü)

1. home
2. cave, den, lair (of an animal)
3. container, vessel, holder

Derived terms

• ewüttütö
• shiichu ewüttü

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öwattö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 114
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 223, 291: “ewütü 'lair' […] ye:wü'tü 'urn, lair, holder'”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ewɨ̄tɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021